Beauty Quote by Ruth Bernhard

What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.

— Ruth Bernhard

Black and White is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality. My purpose in taking photographs…

— Roger Ballen

There are certain mystical belief systems that believe that taking pictures takes an aspect of the soul, but beyond that it's just the idea…

— Madonna Ciccone

Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not…

— Ansel Adams

In a photograph, if I am able to evoke not alone a feeling of the reality of the surface physical world but also a…

— Wynn Bullock

We have faith in the photograph not only because it works on a physically descriptive level, but in a broader sense because it confirms…

— Fred Ritchin

“It’s in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced, and Photoshopped world very…

— Brené Brown

“It’s in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced, and Photoshopped world very…

— Brené Brown

Of course, pictures of objects also have this transcendental side to them. Every object, being part of an ultimately incomprehensible world, also embodies that…

— Gerhard Richter

It's like a magic well. You think you know everything about [a] photograph, you think you've gotten everything out of it, and all of…

— Chuck Close

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. Like the images the photographer plunges…

— Georges Duhamel

For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination…

— Ruth Bernhard