Ernst Haas Quotes
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Style has no formula, but it has a secret key. It is the extension of your personality. The summation of this indefinable net of your feeling, knowledge and experience. Take colour as a totality of relations within a framecolour is joy. One does not think joy. One is carried by it.
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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.
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The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances...a tiny relationship - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture.
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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.
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Style has no formula, but it has a secret key. It is the extension of your personality.
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In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.
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We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.
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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.
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The camera only facilitates the taking. The photographer must do the giving in order to transform and transcend ordinary reality. The problem is to transform without deforming. He must gain intensity in form and content by bringing a subjective order into an objective chaos.
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My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.
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Learn by doing or even better unlearn by doing. The opposite of what you learned.
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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.
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Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem of how to humanize, how to overcome a machine on which we are thoroughly dependent... the camera.
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Photography is a transformation, not a reproduction.
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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.
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The best zoom lens is your legs.
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A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.
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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.
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Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.
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I don't believe so much in the value of a single picture anymore. I don't really photograph for the wall.
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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.
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Decide for yourself what kind of works you want to create... facts, essays, poems - do you want to speak or to sing?
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You don’t take pictures, the good ones happen to you.
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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.