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Seeing comes from the inside, from the heart, from life's experiences. — Ruth Bernhard

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

If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning — Ruth Bernhard

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

I always said 'yes' to everything. — Ruth Bernhard

Photography is art when it's used by an artist. — Ruth Bernhard

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

I never took a photograph. Instead, I became a good listener. — Ruth Bernhard

Everything I do is a metaphor of the universal order. — Ruth Bernhard

I think of the nudes as seed pods, like flowers or grasses. They are universal bodies. — Ruth Bernhard

You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it. — Ruth Bernhard

If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything. — Ruth Bernhard

Photographs speak to me, and I obey. — Ruth Bernhard

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

It seems a perfectly normal thing to be 95. — Ruth Bernhard

Everything is one and I am one with it. — Ruth Bernhard

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help. — Ruth Bernhard

I feel that everything has to come from the heart, and it cannot come from the intellect. — Ruth Bernhard

I understood the craft of photography when done by an artist is art. — Ruth Bernhard

I always say yes to everything because I always feel that whatever comes my way, life meant for me. — Ruth Bernhard

I look at ordinary objects, and I see things that other people don't see. That's why I'm a photographer. — Ruth Bernhard

I'm no snapshot artist. I make very careful choices always, even if I'm using a 35mm camera. — Ruth Bernhard

To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the image of woman has been my mission. — Ruth Bernhard

Remember God likes us best when we are flying by the seats of our pants, — Ruth Bernhard

To indicate the ideal proportion and reveal sculptural mass and the dominating spirit is my goal. — Ruth Bernhard

I have no regrets about my work. To be a photographer was a gift of the gods. I can't imagine anything that would have been better. — Ruth Bernhard

I feel that is more important than my work, the influence I have on my students. — Ruth Bernhard

Often I have struggled for days to get the image of the photograph to overlap the spirit I see. It is an awesome responsibility, and a lonely one. — Ruth Bernhard

I've always photographed beauty, but I've never been beautiful myself. — Ruth Bernhard

I had a natural feeling for sculpture, and the nudes are my sculpture. — Ruth Bernhard

#1 Never Get Used to Anything. — Ruth Bernhard

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

If I have chosen the female form in particular, it is because beauty has been debased and exploited in our sensual 20th century. — Ruth Bernhard

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

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

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

If you can't make the image bigger or more important than what you see, then don't push the button — Ruth Bernhard

There is nothing unimportant in the universe. — Ruth Bernhard