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You have to learn not only from your failures. You must also learn from your successes.

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Jay Maisel
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 18
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The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the light is everywhere, the drama is gone.
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Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.
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Some have said that if you take a great picture in color and take away the color, you'll have a great black-and-white picture. But if you're shooting something about color and you take away the color, you'll have nothing.
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If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.
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There are rules about perception, but not about photography.
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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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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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... 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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One color alone means nothing. I acts as in a vacuum, with no other colors to relate to. It is only when colors relate to other colors that the fun begins.
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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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When we are given gifts, we must be quick and able to accept them.
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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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Never say you're going back - SHOOT IT NOW!
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We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.
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As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting.
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I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it.
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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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I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force.
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You sort of have to be always aware, even when you're not thinking of shooting. That's when the best stuff happens.
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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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