There is no formula. There are only confirmations to formulas which one has already discovered oneself. Ernst Haas More Quotes by Ernst Haas More Quotes From Ernst Haas We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation. Ernst Haas prose-and-poetrywritingneeds Don't park... Arrival is the death of inspiration. Ernst Haas parksphotographerinspiration 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. Ernst Haas givingorderreality 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. Ernst Haas spitedoubtart My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right. Ernst Haas feels-justphotographysimple 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. Ernst Haas keyspersonalitythinking A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question. Ernst Haas few-wordsphotographyart The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work. Ernst Haas artistworkbelieve I don't believe so much in the value of a single picture anymore. I don't really photograph for the wall. Ernst Haas wallphotographbelieve Learn by doing or even better unlearn by doing. The opposite of what you learned. Ernst Haas unlearnoppositeseducation All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot. Ernst Haas moodsshotparisbeauty
