Ernst Haas Quotes

Beware of direct inspiration. It leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you.

Through photography, both artist and scientist can find a common denominator in their search for the synthesis of modern vision in time, space and structure.

Don't ever over-analyze your results. Don't ever try to find your own secret or the one which you admire. One does not try to catch soap bubbles. One enjoys them in flight and is grateful for their fluid existence.

The most important lens you have is your legs

Color is joy. One does not think joy. One is carried by it.

In the smallest cells are reflections of the largest. And in photography, through an interplay of scales, a whole universe within a universe can be revealed.

We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

Beware of too much taste as it leads to sterility.

In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.

A picture can be an answer as well as a question but if you can't answer your question try to question your question ... There can be questions without answers but no answers without questions.

I prefer to be noticed some day, first for my ideas and second for my good eye ...

Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry.

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

Style has no formula, but it has a secret key.
It is the extension of your personality.

Decide for yourself what kind of works you want to create ... facts, essays, poems - do you want to speak or to sing?

Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.

The best zoom lens is your legs.

You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography.

We all would love sometimes to be free from our own knowledge. It is even the most difficult to unlearn - as the most important problems are.

There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy, it will be more difficult.

I don't believe so much in the value of a single picture anymore. I don't really photograph for the wall.

My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.

To express dynamic motion through a static moment became for me limited and unsatisfactory. The basic idea was to liberate myself from this old concept and arrive at an image in which the spectator could feel the beauty of a fourth dimension, which lies much more between moments than within a moment. In music one remembers never one tone, but a melody, a theme, a movement. In dance, never a moment, but again the beauty of a movement in time and space.

Photography is a bridge between science and art. It brings to science what it needs most, the artistic sense, and to art the proof that nothing can be imagined which cannot be matched in the counterpoints of nature.

Don't park ... Arrival is the death of inspiration.

Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.