Quotes from Ernst Haas

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

We all would love sometimes to be free from our own knowledge. It is even the most difficult to unlearn - as the most important problems are.

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

Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry.

Decide for yourself what kind of works you want to create... facts, essays, poems - do you want to speak or to sing?

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

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

In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.

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

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

Don't park... Arrival is the death of inspiration.