Ruth Bernhard Quotes

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

~ Ruth Bernhard

Help Make Me Never Photographs Question Tells Themselves

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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

Above Bound Clouds Constantly Cosmic Creatures Each Energy Gift Ground Harmony Nature New Own Plants Possessing Radiant Together Walk

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Everything I do is a metaphor of the universal order.

~ Ruth Bernhard

Everything Metaphor Order Universal

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I allowed life to give me presents. And everything just sort of happened the way it was supposed to happen. I did not pursue anything. It more or less pursued me.

~ Ruth Bernhard

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

~ Ruth Bernhard

Always Because Everything Feel Life Me Meant Say Way Way Life Whatever Yes

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

~ Ruth Bernhard

Cannot Come Everything Feel Heart I Feel Intellect

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

~ Ruth Bernhard

Feel I Feel Important Influence More Students Than Work

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

~ Ruth Bernhard

Feeling Had Natural Sculpture

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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

About Anything Been Better Gift Gods Imagine No Regrets Photographer Regrets Work Would

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I learned early on that if I was to get attention, I would have to be charming. Even the models I've photographed are often like that. Some of them are not beautiful. But, if you catch them in the right light, they glow.

~ Ruth Bernhard

Attention Beautiful Catch Charming Early Even Get Glow Learned Light Like Models Often Photographed Right Some Them Would You

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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 See Look Objects Ordinary Other People Photographer See Things Why

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I never took a photograph. Instead, I became a good listener.

~ Ruth Bernhard

Became Good Instead Listener Never Photograph Took

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

~ Ruth Bernhard

Bodies Flowers I Think Like Seed Think Universal

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

~ Ruth Bernhard

Art Artist Craft Done Photography Understood

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I was a very, very careful printer when I used 8-by-10 film. I probably spent more time on printing than anything else. The more the prints were appreciated, the more time I spent on them.

~ Ruth Bernhard

Anything Anything Else Appreciated Careful Else Film More Printer Printing Prints Spent Than Them Time Used Very Were

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

~ Ruth Bernhard

Always Artist Camera Careful Choices Even Make Snapshot Using Very

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

~ Ruth Bernhard

Always Beautiful Beauty Been Myself Never Photographed

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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

20th Century Beauty Because Been Century Chosen Exploited Female Form Has-Been Our Particular Sensual

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It seems a perfectly normal thing to be 95.

~ Ruth Bernhard

Normal Perfectly Seems Thing

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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

Clarity Emphasis Form Give Greatest Isolate Light Magic Quest Shadow Simplify Through

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Ruth Bernhard

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14 October, 1905

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18 December, 2006

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Germany

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