Ernst Haas Quotes
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The best zoom lens is your legs.
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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.
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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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Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.
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I want to be remembered much more by a total vision than a few perfect single pictures.
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Beware of too much taste as it leads to sterility.
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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.
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There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
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Is photography art?... The pure definition of the word 'art' alone is too vague today to break one's brain and soul about it. Let us take a little vacation from this word.
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All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most, I shot.
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A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?
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Color is joy. One does not think joy. One is carried by it.
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Beware of direct inspiration. It leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you.
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I love to read theories without ever using them when working... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also true in reverse.
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Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
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Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.
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A picture is the expression of an impression
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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.
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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.
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Don't park... Arrival is the death of inspiration.
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Only a vision - that is what one must have.
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There is no formula. There are only confirmations to formulas which one has already discovered oneself.
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The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.
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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.