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The best camera is the one you have with you.

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Jay Maisel
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 18
Photographer
Brooklyn
New York
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You have to learn not only from your failures. You must also learn from your successes.
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There is no one solution to all problems. It's the problem itself that can lead to the solution.
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If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it.
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If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked.
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It's not just when you shoot, or what you shot, or where you shoot, it's the combination of the three.
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You cannot accurately remember color.
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Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content.
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I take pictures, and they are there for the taking. I'll tell you a quote that I have always thought about. Arthur Miller said, I try to create the poem from the evidence.
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