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Gesture is not always action. — Jay Maisel

An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully attending to all that concerns him. — Eric Maisel

Write, even if you have a twinge, a doubt, a fear, a block, a noisy neighbor, a sick cat, thirteen unpublished stories, and a painful boil. — Eric Maisel

Forget what it was. Look at what it is. — Jay Maisel

An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist. — Eric Maisel

Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters. — Eric Maisel

An essential aspect of self-support is to remind yourself that success is not measurable, but a matter of feeling. — Eric Maisel

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

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

Always wait for the trigger. The trigger is the final part of the puzzle, the reason you want to shoot. — Jay Maisel

The best camera is the one you have with you. — Jay Maisel

Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot. — Eric Maisel

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

If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game. — Jay Maisel

leave yourself open to accept things rather than anxiously searching for them. You — Jay Maisel

To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting. — Eric Maisel

Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets. — Eric Maisel

Pain is not a conduit to art or joy — Jay Maisel

Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended. — Eric Maisel

An artist ... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living. — Eric Maisel

If you're just going to meet consumer or clients' demands, you might as well be a plumber - the work will be more frequently available. — Jay Maisel

Keep your mind open. You may very well learn something new about yourself and your pictures. — Jay Maisel

Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving. — Eric Maisel

The more light you have in an image, the less drama you get. The details start taking over; the mystery is all gone. — Jay Maisel

Affirmations need to be used if they are to become incorporated into the fabric of your being. — Eric Maisel

Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality. — Eric Maisel

The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection. — Eric Maisel

You have to let the past successes go, or you'll never be able to see anew. — Jay Maisel

The artist is a god, but he is also an idiot. That is the human way. — Eric Maisel

Never say you're going back - SHOOT IT NOW! — Jay Maisel

To obsess too virulently is to walk alone in anxiety. But to obsess too little is to wall oneself off from one's own creativity. — Eric Maisel

There really isn't anything that you could call 'bad' color. It all has to do with the amount of color you use and in what context it appears. — Jay Maisel

It is the job of each artist to believe in the possibility of meaningful, substantial, and sustainable change. — Eric Maisel

Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio. — Eric Maisel

It's important to realize that the images are everywhere, not just where you want or expect them to be. — Jay Maisel

There are an infinite number of rewards you could bestow on yourself for working at your creative projects, and you deserve every one of them. — Eric Maisel

You have to learn not only from your failures. You must also learn from your successes. — Jay Maisel

The result may be important but it's not the actual measure. The measure is the feeling you have made contact with something. — Eric Maisel

Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity. — Eric Maisel

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression. — Eric Maisel

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

The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an artist. — Eric Maisel

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. — Jay Maisel

Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up. — Jay Maisel

Live intensely and dangerously. The world may not depend on your efforts, but you do. — Eric Maisel

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

What you're shooting at doesn't matter, the real question is: 'Does it give you joy?' — Jay Maisel

You always end up with too many pictures to edit and too few that you feel 'got it'. — Jay Maisel

Deconstruction is great for the intellect, but it hurts the heart terribly. — Eric Maisel

Artists disbelieve and dispute society's most cherished notions. — Eric Maisel

The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated. — Eric Maisel

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

I am one powerful self made up of so many selves that sometimes I throw myself a get-acquainted party. — Eric Maisel

A wild person with a calm mind can make anything. — Eric Maisel

Even though we require flexibility to negotiate our changing circumstances, we are rather built to anxiously turn away from alternatives. — Eric Maisel

A long, deep breath is the equivalent of a full stop and the key to centering. — Eric Maisel

Rekindling hope, engaging in inner work, and venturing into the world amount to a complete plan for picking yourself up when you're down. — Eric Maisel

Never put lettering in your photos unless you want it read. — Jay Maisel

Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both. — Eric Maisel

Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows. — Eric Maisel

The song you write may be beautiful, the research you conceive may be beautiful, but you are the real beauty in life. — Eric Maisel

The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half. — Eric Maisel

All space is space in which to create. — Eric Maisel

Always shoot it now. It won't be the same when you go back. — Jay Maisel

Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content. — Jay Maisel

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

You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'. — Jay Maisel

If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked. — Jay Maisel

You will, in time, see and show others not just the superficial, but the details, the meanings, and the implications of all that you look at ... — Jay Maisel

An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour. — Eric Maisel

When we are given gifts, we must be quick and able to accept them. — Jay Maisel

The composition is already there, you just need to crop it — Jay Maisel

A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially. — Eric Maisel

No muse shoots darts of insight into the unsuspecting artist. — Eric Maisel

Allow yourself to lose your way. — Jay Maisel

Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new. — Jay Maisel

As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting. — Jay Maisel

The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person. — Eric Maisel

The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society. — Eric Maisel

Always carry a camera, it's tough to shoot a picture without one. — Jay Maisel

It is in an artist's real interest to congratulate herself more often: not out of narcissism, but in her role as her own dear friend and advocate. — Eric Maisel

Remind yourself of the value of detaching from work that's out of your hands and committing to new work that wants to be born. — Eric Maisel

Go directly to work' means ... when an idea strikes, you drop everything and when your work bell tolls, you answer it. — Eric Maisel

Creativity is not a talent or ability. It is the fruit of a person's decision to matter. — Eric Maisel

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

An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes ... — Eric Maisel

Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate ... Who does that directing? — Eric Maisel

We have always wanted to find the 'it-ness' of anything we shoot. We want to get as deep into the subject as we can. — Jay Maisel

The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot. — Eric Maisel

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

If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy. — Jay Maisel

I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am. — Eric Maisel

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

While some part of the artwork may fail, the whole may have its own unique importance. — Eric Maisel

Don't overthink things in front of you. I fit moves you, shoot it. If it's fun, shoot it. If you've never seen it before, shoot it. — Jay Maisel

Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state. — Eric Maisel

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

Hurray for criticism, if it means that an artist's voice is heard. Let the wise artist invite criticism and survive it when it comes. — Eric Maisel

You need minimum color for maximum effect. — Jay Maisel

You can sweat by not practicing or you can pick up your clarinet. There's good sweat and there's bad sweat. — Eric Maisel