Ruth Bernhard Quotes
Top 38 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ruth Bernhard
Ruth Bernhard Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Ruth Bernhard on Wise Famous Quotes.
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.
If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.
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.
I look at ordinary objects, and I see things that other people don't see. That's why I'm a photographer.
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.
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.
Never ever say the word shoot when you are taking a picture with a camera because a camera is not a violent weapon.
If I have chosen the female form in particular, it is because beauty has been debased and exploited in our sensual 20th century.
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.
My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify, and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity.