Jay Maisel Quotes

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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.
• Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.
• Be aware of every square millimeter of your frame.
• If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game.
• I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force.
• As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting.
• Never put lettering in your photos unless you want it read.
• I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it.
• Always carry a camera, it's tough to shoot a picture without one.
• It's always around. You just don't see it.
• Allow yourself to lose your way.
• 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…
• There are rules about perception, but not about photography.
• A photographer's art is more in his perceptions than his execution. In a painter, I think the perception is only the first step, and then…
• You find that you have to do many things, more than just lift up the camera and shoot, and so you get involved in it…
• You are responsible for every part of your image, even the parts you’re not interested in.
• If the light is great in front of you, you should turn around and see what it is doing behind you.
• Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.
• Each picture you take has power as long as it brings experience to the person who’s looking at it.
• If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.

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