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Jay Maisel
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 18
Photographer
Brooklyn
New York
Color
Cannot
Remember
Accurately
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Photography

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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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First, perseverance trumps talent. Second, do what you want to do, otherwise why bother? Third, be ethical it might rub off on others. Fourth, don't give up.
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All these factors are only valuable if you're curious. But in any case, the more knowledge you have, the more things are open and available to you.
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Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new.
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Sometimes as you work, you find that you are learning things about your own perceptions and motivations that are way below you consciousness. If you get lucky, you recognize what you are doing, but all too often we don't find the connection between our work and our own motivations.
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As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting.
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When you shoot, that is opportunity number one to make a statement. When you edit, you have opportunity number two to make your statement. It could be an affirmation of your first choice or could go off in another direction.
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Be aware of every square millimeter of your frame.
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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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You have to have a lot of 'overage' so that your failures aren't the only thing you come home with. You've got to have a lot of things that were magnificent failures, but you want some magnificent successes.
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I want to go out as unprepared as possible so I can get filled up with what the world has to offer.
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You have to learn not only from your failures. You must also learn from your successes.
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Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.
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The awareness of the quality of space in out photos is akin to our awareness of the very air in our photos, the atmosphere that pervades every square inch of our image and yet is often invisible to the photographer.
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Each picture you take has power as long as it brings experience to the person who’s looking at it.
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Had I not been told to look, I would have quite, ignorant of what was really there, because I had 'made plans' and was wearing visual and emotional blinders that limited my perceptions and my vision.
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We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.
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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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Keep your mind open. You may very well learn something new about yourself and your pictures.
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You can't just turn on when something happens, you have to be turned on all the time. Then things happen.
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