Ruth Bernhard Quotes About Photography

• 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, Photographer

• If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning

  Ruth Bernhard

  Photography, Photographer, Not Interested

• 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

• 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

  Spiritual, Photography, Emotional

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

  Ruth Bernhard

  Photography, Insightful, Photographer

• Enamórate. Cada día. De todo. De la vida. Si puedes enamorarte, puedes ser fotógrafo. Creo que eso es absolutamente esencial.

  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

• 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 are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Photography, Photographer, Willing

• 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

• Lo que ve el ojo humano es una ilusión de lo real. La imagen en blanco y negro transforma las ilusiones en otra realidad.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Fotografía, Real, Ojo

• 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

• Tienes que seguir tu instinto todo el tiempo. Si no, no lo consigues.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Photography, Photographer, Instinct

• Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Photography, Art, Photographer

• 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

• 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

• 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

• La mujer ha sido el blanco de muchas cosas sórdidas y baratas, especialmente en la fotografía. Mi misión ha sido elevar la imagen de la mujer con una reverencia atemporal.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Photography, Target, Photographer

• Cada día soy consciente del flujo y del cambio constante; quizás estoy al borde de descubrir qué más pueden enseñarnos nuestros cuerpos sobre el espíritu de la vida. Al menos, siempre estoy explorando e intentando comprender nuestra relación con el universo entero.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Photography, Trying, Body

• I always said 'yes' to everything.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Photography, Photographer, Said

• Everything is one and I am one with it.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Fotografía, Fotógrafo

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