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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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Jay Maisel
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 18
Photographer
Brooklyn
New York
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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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If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.
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We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.
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Color is seductive. It changes as it interacts with other colors, it changes because of the light falling upon it, and it changes as it becomes larger in size.
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The pictures are everywhere. If you're open, they will find you.
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Color really doesn't have interaction if it's full of colors. It's the interaction or relationship among or between colors that makes a color image. This usually happens with a few colors, not a glut of them.
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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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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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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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Forget what it was. Look at what it is.
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Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.
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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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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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If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked.
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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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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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You always end up with too many pictures to edit and too few that you feel 'got it'.
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If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game.
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Be aware of every square millimeter of your frame.
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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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