Quotes by Ernst Haas

Ernst Haas

A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.

Art

Few Words

Photography

A picture is the expression of an impression

Expression

Impression

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most, I shot.

Pain

Paris

Photography

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the ‘ah-ha’.

Lenses

Photography

Two

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

Color

Facts

Photography

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

Inspiration

Inspired

Repetition

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.

Reality

Taken

Views

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.

Grateful

Secret

Trying

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

Creativity

Photography

Shooting

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.

Facts

Paradoxical

Theory

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Art

Artist

Believe

Cameras

Cells

Color

Creativity

Differences

Easy

Education

Expression

Eye

Facts

Few Words

Firsts

Grateful

Ideas

Impression

Inspiration

Inspired

Keys

Lenses

Masters

Needs

Opposites

Pain

Painting

Painting And Poetry

Paradoxical

Paris

Past

Perfect

Personality

Photographer

Photography

Prose And Poetry

Reality

Reflection

Repetition

Secret

Shooting

Space

Struggle

Taken

Technology

Theory

Things In Life

Thinking

Trying

Two

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Quotes by Ernst Haas

Ernst Haas

A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.

A picture is the expression of an impression

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most, I shot.

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the ‘ah-ha’.

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

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

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.

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

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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