Jay Maisel Quotes - Page 4

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.

Pain is not a conduit to art or joy

You see shape, and how the light hits things, how the color changes from one end of the photo to the other, and how movement affects the mood of the photo.

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.

You cannot accurately remember color.

You have to pick the right tool for the point you're trying to make and there is no one solution.

The problem suggests the solution.

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.

Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.

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.

'Color' is quite different from 'colors.' In an image with many colors, we find that all the colors compete with each other rather than interacting with each other. The results" colors.

We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.

There is no one solution to all problems. It's the problem itself that can lead to the solution.