Ruth Bernhard famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.
-- Ruth Bernhard

#Nature #Clouds #Together
If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.
-- Ruth Bernhard

#Photography #Ideas #Cry
I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.
-- Ruth Bernhard

#Photography #Helping #Photograph
Fall in love. Every day. With everything. With life. If you can fall in love, you can be a photographer. I think that is absolutely essential.
-- Ruth Bernhard

#Photography #Falling In Love #Love You
A person cannot learn to be a photographer. He can only cultivate what he already has. I try to make people aware that they have something very precious to cultivate.
-- Ruth Bernhard

#Photography #People #Trying
If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning
-- Ruth Bernhard

#Photography #Not Interested
If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.
-- Ruth Bernhard

#Willing
There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.
-- Ruth Bernhard

#Photography #Soul #Too Much
If you can't make the image bigger or more important than what you see, then don't push the button
-- Ruth Bernhard

#Photography #Important #Buttons
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 image of woman, has been my mission.
-- Ruth Bernhard

#Photography #Target #Timeless
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 indicate the ideal proportion, to reveal sculptural mass and the dominating spirit is my goal.
-- Ruth Bernhard

#Photography #Light #Giving
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 lines. Light I acknowledge as the energy upon which all life on this planet depends.
-- Ruth Bernhard

#Photography #Inspiration #Curves
#1 Never Get Used to Anything.
-- Ruth Bernhard

#Life #Used
Remember God likes us best when we are flying by the seats of our pants,
-- Ruth Bernhard

#Flying #Likes #Pants
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, the parental as well as the descendant, conceived according to nature's longings.
-- Ruth Bernhard

#Mother #Children #Body
You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it.
-- Ruth Bernhard

#Photography #Instinct
I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing to do with it.
-- Ruth Bernhard

#Photography #Photograph #Intellect
What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.
-- Ruth Bernhard

#Photography #Real #Eye
Light is my inspiration. My photographic images search for dimensions that words cannot touch- the result of intense responses to personal experiences. I do not wish to "record," but rather to touch upon the illusive meanings which I perceive and try to comprehend in this limitless universe.
-- Ruth Bernhard

#Photography #Inspiration #Light
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 a compelling impulse I cannot deny. Whether working with a human figure or a still life, I am deeply aware of my spiritual connection with it. In my life, as in my work, I am motivated by a great yearning for balance and harmony beyond the realm of human experience, reaching for the essence of oneness with the Universe.
-- Ruth Bernhard

#Photography #Spiritual #Emotional
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 able to teach about the spirit of life. At least, I am always exploring and trying to understand our relationship to the whole universe.
-- Ruth Bernhard

#Photography #Trying #Body
Photography is art when it's used by an artist.
-- Ruth Bernhard

#Photography #Art #Artist
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.
-- Ruth Bernhard

#Real #Eye #Black And White
There is nothing unimportant in the universe.
-- Ruth Bernhard

#Universe #Unimportant
Never ever say the word shoot when you are taking a picture with a camera because a camera is not a violent weapon.
-- Ruth Bernhard

#Photography #Weapons #Cameras
Everything is one and I am one with it.
-- Ruth Bernhard
I always said 'yes' to everything.
-- Ruth Bernhard

#Said
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 at home in our skin. Other animals have coats that they accept, but the human race has yet to come to terms with being nude.
-- Ruth Bernhard

#Home #Animal #Race

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