Ernst Haas Quotations

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

We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.

There is no formula. There are only confirmations to formulas which one has already discovered oneself.

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

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.

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

I have always felt better taking a risk than an easier route for what I believe in.

Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.

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

The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.