Hausmann Quotes & Sayings

We called [the] process photomontage, because it embodied our refusal to play the part of the artist. We regarded ourselves as engineers, and our work as construction: we assembled our work, like a fitter. — Raoul Hausmann

[Dada is] perfectly kindhearted malice, alongside exact photography the only legitimate pictorial form of communication and balance in shared experience. — Raoul Hausmann

If we not only feed that most intelligent computer which is our brain but also compute the data we collect, we cannot go wrong. In a way we all can guess what will happen. — Gisela Hausmann

Suddenly I felt that determination well up, which had helped me to accomplish things in the past, even when I was only six years old. — Gisela Hausmann

What is important is that our optical awareness rids itself of classical notions of beauty and opens itself more and more to the beauty of the instant and of these surprising points of view that appear for a brief moment and never return; those are what make photography an art. — Raoul Hausmann

While one can love an irresponsible friend or a person with character flaws, alliances are built on respect, the responsibilities which arise out of that and knowing that together we can be stronger. — Gisela Hausmann

In this world of endless opportunities our dreams compete. If we wait to start a journey, the destination may not be anymore what we wanted to find. — Gisela Hausmann

And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has vanished. — Jennifer Egan

To be a photographer is to become aware of visible appearances and at the same time acquire from them an education in individual and common optical aperception. Why? Because every individual sees in his own way but see little more than images shaped by the cultural standards of a given period. — Raoul Hausmann

Taking action and doing, is one key to success. Keeping logistics in mind - enormous things are possible. — Gisela Hausmann

Affairs are the stuff movies are made of; flings are for TV. — Gisela Hausmann

And to this day I love endless landscapes, big horizons, sunflowers, and narcissi. — Gisela Hausmann

To this day I still do not know why red shoes are sooo me. I think it might be that in a way the color demonstrates that though I am not much of a dresser I do have a fiery element in me and sometimes I even run with it. — Gisela Hausmann

I would like to be able to say that I came back from this by just simply getting up from the sofa and rolling up my sleeves ... but I didn't. I could not even take things days by day. In realistic terms I fought to make it through the day - 5 minutes at a time. — Gisela Hausmann