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 More Quotes by Ruth Bernhard More Quotes From Ruth Bernhard The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well as the child, the parental as well as the descendant, conceived according to nature's longings. Ruth Bernhard body mother children 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 lonely responsibility spirit 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 find-me photograph looks Everything is one and I am one with it. Ruth Bernhard photography photographer 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 intellect photograph photography You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it. Ruth Bernhard instinct photography photographer 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 light photography giving I always said 'yes' to everything. Ruth Bernhard photography photographer said Photography is art when it's used by an artist. Ruth Bernhard photography photographer art I had a natural feeling for sculpture, and the nudes are my sculpture. Ruth Bernhard had feeling sculpture natural To me... San Francisco is an ideal city, intellectually stimulating and naturally beautiful. The oceans and forests are close enough to refresh the spirit; the architecture is always exciting. Ruth Bernhard city me architecture beautiful 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 glow you light beautiful 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 been because sensual beauty I've always photographed beauty, but I've never been beautiful myself. Ruth Bernhard never myself beautiful beauty I understood the craft of photography when done by an artist is art. Ruth Bernhard photography done artist art 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 gift better no-regrets work I always say yes to everything because I always feel that whatever comes my way, life meant for me. Ruth Bernhard feel me life way I feel that everything has to come from the heart, and it cannot come from the intellect. Ruth Bernhard cannot feel everything heart To indicate the ideal proportion and reveal sculptural mass and the dominating spirit is my goal. Ruth Bernhard reveal ideal goal spirit 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 everything me life way
