Ernst Haas

I love to read theories without ever using them when working... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also…

— Ernst Haas

A picture is the expression of an impression

— Ernst Haas

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

— Ernst Haas

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

— Ernst Haas

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

— Ernst Haas

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

— Ernst Haas

Through photography, both artist and scientist can find a common denominator in their search for the synthesis of modern vision in time,…

— Ernst Haas

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We…

— Ernst Haas

The best zoom lens is your legs.

— Ernst Haas

Every work of art has its necessity; find out your very own. Ask yourself if you would do it if nobody would…

— Ernst Haas

Learn by doing or even better unlearn by doing. The opposite of what you learned.

— Ernst Haas

The most important lens you have is your legs

— Ernst Haas

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

— Ernst Haas

Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem…

— Ernst Haas

Photography is a transformation, not a reproduction.

— Ernst Haas

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

— Ernst Haas

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

— Ernst Haas

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

— Ernst Haas

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

— Ernst Haas

Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view.

— Ernst Haas

To express dynamic motion through a static moment became for me limited and unsatisfactory. The basic idea was to liberate myself from…

— Ernst Haas

There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy,…

— Ernst Haas

I prefer to be noticed some day, first for my ideas and second for my good eye.

— Ernst Haas

Photography is a bridge between science and art. It brings to science what it needs most, the artistic sense, and to art…

— Ernst Haas

in the smallest cells are reflections of the largest. And in photography, through an interplay of scales, a whole universe within a…

— Ernst Haas