Mrs Maisel Quotes & Sayings

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 in a very physical way. You may find that the picture you want to do can only be made from a certain place, and you're not there, so you have to physically go there. And that participation may spur you on to work harder on the thing, ... because in the physical change of position you start seeing a whole different relationship. — Jay 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

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

By 'expecting nothing' you are not 'giving up.' Far from it! You are making a decision to focus on what needs to be done rather than on outcomes. — Eric Maisel

When you shoot, that is opportunity number one to make a statement. When you edit, you have opportunity number two to make your statement. It could be an affirmation of your first choice or could go off in another direction. — Jay Maisel

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

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

If you wait for a better time to create, better than this very moment, if you wait until you feel settled, divinely inspired, perfectly centered, unburdened of your usual worries, or free of your own skin, forget about it. You will still be waiting tomorrow and the next day, wondering why you never managed to begin, wondering — Eric Maisel

If, because of anxiety and self-doubt, you procrastinate and only think about working, you'll feel more exhausted than if you'd created for hours. — 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

You can't plan in advance for everything - every mood swing, every mistake you might make in execution, every shift in your circumstances. But you can keep updating your plan ... — Eric Maisel

Because of our fear that we are merely excited matter and the consequent grudge that we hold against the universe, we feel lost and alienated, like a refugee far from home in a universe that cares nothing for us. — Eric Maisel

When you flow like water you bring all of your talents and resources to your creative work ... Flow around every obstacle you encounter, including any you've erected yourself. — Eric Maisel

The whole world is there for you. Gifts will happen, but only if you are patient with life itself, the shooting process, and your own limitations. — Jay Maisel

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

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

The writer loves the fog as it pours in; he loves the sun when the fog pours out. The rest of California is Beach Boys country, but San Francisco has that moody thing going on, those blues notes wrapped in moisture, an atmosphere that tempers California dreaming and makes life more real. The fog brings reality, but it is still a California reality, one spent outdoors the whole year round. — Eric Maisel

The artist, who must venture into the studio and risk there, and then venture into the marketplace and risk again, is obliged to learn how her defences work, so that she can drop and raise her guard instantly. — Eric Maisel

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

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

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

You sort of have to be always aware, even when you're not thinking of shooting. That's when the best stuff happens. — Jay Maisel

If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person. — Jay Maisel

It's not just when you shoot, or what you shot, or where you shoot, it's the combination of the three. — Jay Maisel

It's always around. You just don't see it. — Jay Maisel

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

Each picture you take has power as long as it brings experience to the person who's looking at it. — Jay Maisel

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

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