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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.
Jay Maisel
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Jay Maisel
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 18
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You have to learn not only from your failures. You must also learn from your successes.
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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're not shooting in the right direction, it doesn't matter how well you're shooting.
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I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force.
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Forget what it was. Look at what it is.
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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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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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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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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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Gesture is not always action.
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I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it.
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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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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 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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We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.
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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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If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked.
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As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting.
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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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