Ruth Bernhard Quotes

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• I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.
• Woman has been the target of much that is sordid and cheap, especially in photography. To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the…
• My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity. To…
• Light is my inspiration, my paint and brush. It is as vital as the model herself. Profoundly significant, it caresses the essential superlative curves and…
• If you can't make the image bigger or more important than what you see, then don't push the button
• Never ever say the word shoot when you are taking a picture with a camera because a camera is not a violent weapon.
• There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.
• If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.
• For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination of…
• Every day I am aware of the flow and constant change; perhaps I am at the edge of discovering what more our bodies might be…
• The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own…
• The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well as the child,…
• It is so basic. A human being is an innocent part of nature. Our civilization has distorted this universal quality that allows us to feel…
• #1 Never Get Used to Anything.
• If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.
• I always said 'yes' to everything.
• Everything is one and I am one with it.
• If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning
• There is nothing unimportant in the universe.
• Each time I make a photograph I celebrate the life I love and the beauty I know and the happiness I have experienced. All my…

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