Ernst Haas Photograph Quotations

The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances...a tiny relationship - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture.

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

I don't believe so much in the value of a single picture anymore. I don't really photograph for the wall.

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.

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.

Photography is a transformation, not a reproduction.

My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.

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.

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

The best zoom lens is your legs.

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.

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...

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

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.

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

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