Ernst Haas famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Photography #Creativity #Shooting
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
-- Ernst Haas

#Photography #Creativity #Cameras
A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?
-- Ernst Haas

#Beautiful #Photography #Creativity
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.
-- Ernst Haas

#Photography #Past #Reality
Color is joy. One does not think joy. One is carried by it.
-- Ernst Haas

#Thinking #Color #Rainbow
Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.
-- Ernst Haas

#Photography #Differences #Cameras
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.
-- Ernst Haas

#Photography #Thinking #Cameras
Photography is a transformation, not a reproduction.
-- Ernst Haas

#Photography #Transformation #Reproduction
Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view. 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.
-- Ernst Haas

#Taken #Reality #Views
My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.
-- Ernst Haas

#Photography #Simple #Feels Just
In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.
-- Ernst Haas

#Art #Believe #Elements
The most important lens you have is your legs
-- Ernst Haas

#Important #Legs #Lenses
You don’t take pictures, the good ones happen to you.
-- Ernst Haas

#Photography #Creativity #Photographer
Style has no formula, but it has a secret key. It is the extension of your personality.
-- Ernst Haas

#Keys #Personality #Secret
You become things, you become an atmosphere, and if you become it, which means you incorporate it within you, you can also give it back. You can put this feeling into a picture. A painter can do it. And a musician can do it and I think a photographer can do that too and that I would call the dreaming with open eyes.
-- Ernst Haas

#Photography #Dream #Creativity
I want to be remembered much more by a total vision than a few perfect single pictures.
-- Ernst Haas

#Perfect #Vision #Want
Beware of direct inspiration. It leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you.
-- Ernst Haas

#Inspiration #Inspired #Repetition
Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.
-- Ernst Haas

#Painting #Masters #Painting And Poetry
Don't park... Arrival is the death of inspiration.
-- Ernst Haas

#Inspiration #Parks #Photographer
There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the studio is the world... For them, the ordinary doesn't exist: every thing in life is a source of nourishment.
-- Ernst Haas

#Photography #Things In Life #Two
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.
-- Ernst Haas

#Photography #Photographer #Easy
Decide for yourself what kind of works you want to create... facts, essays, poems - do you want to speak or to sing?
-- Ernst Haas

#Choices #Want #Facts
There is no formula. There are only confirmations to formulas which one has already discovered oneself.
-- Ernst Haas

#Confirmation #Methodology #Formulas
Every work of art has its necessity; find out your very own. Ask yourself if you would do it if nobody would ever see it, if you would never be compensated for it, if nobody ever wanted it. If you come to a clear ‘yes’ in spite of it, then go ahead and don’t doubt it anymore.
-- Ernst Haas

#Art #Doubt #Spite

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