I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
I never look for a photograph. The photograph finds me and says, I'm here! and I say, Yes, I see you. I… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
Each time I make a photograph I celebrate the life I love and the beauty I know and the happiness I have… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
Often I have struggled for days to get the image of the photograph to overlap the spirit I see. It is an… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help. — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
Light is my inspiration. My photographic images search for dimensions that words cannot touch- the result of intense responses to personal experiences. I do… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry. — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity.… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing to do… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
Every day I am aware of the flow and constant change; perhaps I am at the edge of discovering what more our bodies might… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
I never look for a photograph. The photograph finds me and says, I'm here! and I say, Yes, I see you. I hear you. — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
Fall in love. Every day. With everything. With life. If you can fall in love, you can be a photographer. I think that is… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
