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Photography Quote by Ernst Haas

“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.” quote by Ernst Haas — Download Open image

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

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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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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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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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