Ruth Bernhard Quotes
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.
If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.
What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.
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 never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.
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.
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.
If you can't make the image bigger or more important than what you see, then don't push the button
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.
Never ever say the word shoot when you are taking a picture with a camera because a camera is not a violent weapon.
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.
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.
