If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
All these factors are only valuable if you're curious. But in any case, the more knowledge you have, the more things are… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
The whole world is there for you. Gifts will happen, but only if you are patient with life itself, the shooting process,… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
You have to let the past successes go, or you'll never be able to see anew. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
There really isn't anything that you could call 'bad' color. It all has to do with the amount of color you use… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
You find that you have to do many things, more than just lift up the camera and shoot, and so you get… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
What you're shooting at doesn't matter, the real question is: 'Does it give you joy?' — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
There is no bad light. There is spectacular light and difficult light. It's up to you to use the light you have. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
You always end up with too many pictures to edit and too few that you feel 'got it'. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
You will, in time, see and show others not just the superficial, but the details, the meanings, and the implications of all… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
You can't just turn on when something happens, you have to be turned on all the time. Then things happen. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
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… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
Each picture you take has power as long as it brings experience to the person who’s looking at it. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
'Color' is quite different from 'colors.' In an image with many colors, we find that all the colors compete with each other… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
You have to pick the right tool for the point you're trying to make and there is no one solution. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
It's not just when you shoot, or what you shot, or where you shoot, it's the combination of the three. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
Sometimes as you work, you find that you are learning things about your own perceptions and motivations that are way below you consciousness. If… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
I try not to tell students where to shoot, when to shoot, or what to shoot. I feel finding the picture is the most… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
One color alone means nothing. I acts as in a vacuum, with no other colors to relate to. It is only when colors relate… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
You see shape, and how the light hits things, how the color changes from one end of the photo to the other, and how… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
