Jay Maisel Quotes About Photography

Quotes about: Photography

• 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

  Photography, Shooting, Hearing

• If the light is great in front of you, you should turn around and see what it is doing behind you.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Light, Behind You

• Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Trying, Photographer

• Always carry a camera, it's tough to shoot a picture without one.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Cameras, Tough

• Photography is an act of love.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Acts Of Love

• I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Believe, Air

• If you're not shooting in the right direction, it doesn't matter how well you're shooting.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Shooting, Matter

• If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Interesting, Want

• If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Games, Elements

• 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.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Black And White, Color

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.7, New Riders

• Had I not been told to look, I would have quite, ignorant of what was really there, because I had 'made plans' and was wearing visual and emotional blinders that limited my perceptions and my vision.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Emotional, Perception

• I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Fall, Light

• As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, People, Interesting

• Never put lettering in your photos unless you want it read.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Want, Photographer

• Be aware of every square millimeter of your frame.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Squares, Photographer

• When finding the right angle for a shot...'Move your ass.'

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Moving, Photographer

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

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Problem, Solutions

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.36, New Riders

• Never say you're going back - SHOOT IT NOW!

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Photographer

• 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.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Fun, Mean

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.5, New Riders

• You must not think of yourself as looking at the stage from the audience. You must think of it as theatre in the round and look at it from all sides.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Thinking, Theatre

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.16, New Riders

• Sometimes without shooting a picture germinates in your head. Other times, you keep taking pictures of the same thing and watch the images mature and grow.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Watches, Shooting

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.62, New Riders

• 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.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Motivation, Perception

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.136, New Riders

• You have to learn not only from your failures. You must also learn from your successes.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Photographer

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.202, New Riders

• You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, May, Photographer

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.236, New Riders

• If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Worst Enemy, Photographer

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.1, New Riders

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