Beware of direct inspiration. It leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you. Ernst Haas More Quotes by Ernst Haas More Quotes From Ernst Haas I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new. Ernst Haas shootingcreativityphotography 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 creativitylightphotography A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it? Ernst Haas creativityphotographybeautiful 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 camerasdifferencesphotography 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 takenviewsreality In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe. Ernst Haas elementsbelieveart A picture is the expression of an impression Ernst Haas impressionexpression Decide for yourself what kind of works you want to create... facts, essays, poems - do you want to speak or to sing? Ernst Haas choiceswantfacts 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. Ernst Haas cellsphotographyreflection 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 things-in-lifephotographytwo 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. Ernst Haas importantproblemsometimes Style has no formula, but it has a secret key. Ernst Haas keyspersonalitysecret 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 photographyrealitypast 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. Ernst Haas gratefulsecrettrying 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 photographyphotographereasy All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most, I shot. Ernst Haas parispainphotography 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 creativityphotographydream Beware of too much taste as it leads to sterility. Ernst Haas too-muchtaste Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry. Ernst Haas painting-and-poetrypaintingmasters I want to be remembered much more by a total vision than a few perfect single pictures. Ernst Haas visionperfectwant
