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Art Quote by Ernst Haas

“The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.” quote by Ernst Haas — Download Open image

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

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

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A picture is the expression of an impression

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The best zoom lens is your legs.

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

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

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The most important lens you have is your legs

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Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and…

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“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.”

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I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your…

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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and…

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“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it…

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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

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In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are…

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