“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.” LooksPhotographFind Me Author:Ruth Bernhard
“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.” SpiritResponsibilityLonelyPhotograph Author:Ruth Bernhard
“I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.” HelpingPhotographyPhotographerPhotographInsightful Author:Ruth Bernhard
“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.” HumansStillsSpiritualUniverseFiguresCreationEmotionalBalancePhotographyConnectionsEssenceHarmonyResponsePhotographerPhotographDenyOnenessImpulseRealmsReachingMotivatedYearningCompellingHuman ExperienceStill LifeCulminationEmotional ResponseSpiritual ConnectionPoetry And MusicBalance And Harmony Author:Ruth Bernhard
“Each time I make a photograph I celebrate the life I love and the beauty I know and the happiness I have experienced. All my photographs are made like that responding to my intuition... After all these years, I am still motivated by the radiance that light creates when it transforms an object into something magical. What the eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black-and-white image is yet another transformation. What exactly exists, we may never know.” KnowsYearsMayMadeStillsRealLightEyeBlackWhiteObjectsIllusionTransformationPhotographIntuitionCelebrateMotivatedBlack And WhiteRespondingRadiance Author:Ruth Bernhard
“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.” PhotographyPhotographIntellectFind Me Author:Ruth Bernhard
