There is no formula. There are only confirmations to formulas which one has already discovered oneself.
Ernst HaasI don't believe so much in the value of a single picture anymore. I don't really photograph for the wall.
Ernst HaasAll I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most, I shot.
Ernst HaasIs photography art?... The pure definition of the word 'art' alone is too vague today to break one's brain and soul about it. Let us take a little vacation from this word.
Ernst HaasTo 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.
Ernst Haas