Ernst Haas Quotes About Photography

Quotes about: Photography

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

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Creativity, Shooting

• 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

  Photography, Creativity, Light

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

  Ernst Haas

  Beautiful, Photography, Creativity

• 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

  Photography, Differences, Cameras

• 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

  Photography, Dream, Creativity

• 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

  Photography, Past, Reality

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

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Simple, Feels Just

• You don’t take pictures, the good ones happen to you.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Creativity, Photographer

• The best zoom lens is your legs.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Zoom, Lenses

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

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Two, Lenses

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

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Pain, Paris

• 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

  Photography, Things In Life, Two

• 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

  Photography, Art, Vacation

• Photography is a transformation, not a reproduction.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Transformation, Reproduction

• 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

  Photography, Artist, Space

• 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

  Photography, Color, Facts

• 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

  Photography, Photographer, Easy

• 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, Art, Bridges

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

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Art, Few Words

• 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

  Photography, Thinking, Cameras

• 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

  Photography, Struggle, Technology

• 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

  Photography, Reflection, Cells

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