63 Quotes by Ernst Haas

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.

Style has no formula, but it has a secret key. It is the extension of your personality. The summation of this indefinable net of your feeling, knowledge and experience. Take colour as a totality of relations within a framecolour is joy. One does not think joy. One is carried by it.

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

The best zoom lens is your legs.

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.

I want to be remembered much more by a total vision than a few perfect single pictures.

Style has no formula, but it has a secret key. It is the extension of your personality.

To express dynamic motion through a static moment became for me limited and unsatisfactory. The basic idea was to liberate myself from this old concept and arrive at an image in which the spectator could feel the beauty of a fourth dimension, which lies much more between moments than within a moment. In music one remembers never one tone, but a melody, a theme, a movement. In dance, never a moment, but again the beauty of a movement in time and space.

Beware of too much taste as it leads to sterility.