Mrs Maisel Quotes

#1. Gesture is not always action.

Jay Maisel

#2. Affirmations need to be used if they are to become incorporated into the fabric of your being.

Eric Maisel

#3. The artist ... may suppose that ideas are his chief currency; but unless he is also attuned to feelings, in life and in art, he will not move his fellow human beings.

Eric Maisel

#4. You need minimum color for maximum effect.

Jay Maisel

#5. Never say you're going back - SHOOT IT NOW!

Jay Maisel

#6. Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.

Eric Maisel

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

Eric Maisel

#8. You can't just turn on when something happens, you have to be turned on all the time. Then things happen.

Jay Maisel

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

Jay Maisel

#10. The composition is already there, you just need to crop it

Jay Maisel

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

Jay Maisel

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Artists disbelieve and dispute society's most cherished notions.

Eric Maisel

#15. Our desire is to grow so quiet and to work so deeply that we participate fully in the mystery in which we're embedded. When we manage to do that we feel as if we have merged with the universe; for the duration of that experience we feel immortal.

Eric Maisel

#16. Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.

Eric Maisel

#17. 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

#18. Since the background is as important as the subject, you mustn't let it default by chance. You must control not only vertical and horizontal, you must be aware of the depth of field (or lack of it) that you want in the background.

Jay Maisel

#19. No muse shoots darts of insight into the unsuspecting artist.

Eric Maisel

#20. The artist, busy and unsettled, can find a moment's peace - and even whole-being rejuvenation - by quietly attuning to a red sky, a gray sky, a black sky, a blue sky.

Eric Maisel

#21. Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving.

Eric Maisel

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

Jay Maisel

#23. 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.

Jay Maisel

#24. 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

#25. Photography is an act of love.

Jay Maisel

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

Jay Maisel

#27. First, perseverance trumps talent. Second, do what you want to do, otherwise why bother? Third, be ethical; it might rub off on others. Fourth, don't give up.

Jay Maisel

#28. It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness - just in case they, and not beauty, are the real things of value.

Eric Maisel

#29. Many people are embarrassed to create in public. It feels unseemly to them, like kissing in plain view ... Make a spectacle of yourself.

Eric Maisel

#30. 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