My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right. Ernst Haas More Quotes by Ernst Haas More Quotes From Ernst Haas Photography is a transformation, not a reproduction. Ernst Haas reproduction transformation photography Only a vision - that is what one must have. Ernst Haas vision photographer You don’t take pictures, the good ones happen to you. Ernst Haas creativity photography photographer Color is joy. One does not think joy. One is carried by it. Ernst Haas rainbow color thinking I have always felt better taking a risk than an easier route for what I believe in. Ernst Haas easier risk believe I prefer to be noticed some day, first for my ideas and second for my good eye. Ernst Haas eye ideas firsts 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. Ernst Haas vacation photography art The best zoom lens is your legs. Ernst Haas zoom lenses photography 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. Ernst Haas photography bridges art 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. Ernst Haas wells answers trying Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point. Ernst Haas color photography facts Beware of direct inspiration. It leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you. Ernst Haas repetition inspired inspiration 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. Ernst Haas technology photography struggle The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances...a tiny relationship - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture. Ernst Haas nuance tiny photographer There is no formula. There are only confirmations to formulas which one has already discovered oneself. Ernst Haas formulas confirmation methodology Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'. Ernst Haas lenses photography two 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 cameras photography thinking The most important lens you have is your legs Ernst Haas lenses legs important 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. Ernst Haas space lying ideas Through photography, both artist and scientist can find a common denominator in their search for the synthesis of modern vision in time, space and structure. Ernst Haas space photography artist
