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Forget what it was. Look at what it is.

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Jay Maisel
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 18
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Brooklyn
New York
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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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If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.
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When we are given gifts, we must be quick and able to accept them.
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We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.
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There is no bad light. There is spectacular light and difficult light. It's up to you to use the light you have.
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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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... there's one of the great lies of all times, that computers save time. They don't. They're time suckers. So, I'm trying not to get involved in the Photoshop.
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There really isn't anything that you could call 'bad' color. It all has to do with the amount of color you use and in what context it appears.
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Failing is not a problem. Not trying is a problem.
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Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.
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If you're not shooting in the right direction, it doesn't matter how well you're shooting.
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As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting.
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The best camera is the one you have with you.
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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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Gesture is not always action.
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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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Each picture you take has power as long as it brings experience to the person who’s looking at it.
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Be aware of every square millimeter of your frame.
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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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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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