"Each time I make a photograph I celebrate……" — Ruth Bernhard
"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 photographs are made like that responding to my intuition... After all these years, I am still motivated by the radiance that light creates when it transforms an object into something magical. What the eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black-and-white image is yet another transformation. What exactly exists, we may never know."
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28 Quotes by Ruth Bernhard
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I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.
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Woman has been the target of much that is sordid and cheap, especially in photography. To raise, to elevate, to…
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My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify and to give emphasis to form…
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Light is my inspiration, my paint and brush. It is as vital as the model herself. Profoundly significant, it caresses…
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If you can't make the image bigger or more important than what you see, then don't push the button
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Never ever say the word shoot when you are taking a picture with a camera because a camera is not…
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There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.
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If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you…
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For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music,…
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Every day I am aware of the flow and constant change; perhaps I am at the edge of discovering what…
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The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift…
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The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother…
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