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Beware of direct inspiration. It leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you.

Ernst Haas

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Ernst Haas
Age: 65 †
Born: 1921
Born: March 2
Died: 1986
Died: September 12
Journalist
Photographer
Photojournalist
Writer
Portuguese Republic
Erunusuto Hāsu
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Learn by doing or even better unlearn by doing. The opposite of what you learned.
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I have always felt better taking a risk than an easier route for what I believe in.
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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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We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.
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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.
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Only a vision - that is what one must have.
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A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.
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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.
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in the smallest cells are reflections of the largest. And in photography, through an interplay of scales, a whole universe within a universe can be revealed.
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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.
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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 it, if you would never be compensated for it, if nobody ever wanted it. If you come to a clear ‘yes’ in spite of it, then go ahead and don’t doubt it anymore.
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