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Quote by Ruth Bernhard

“I always said 'yes' to everything.”

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Ruth Bernhard was a renowned photographer known for her unique style and profound interpretation of the nude. Her work holds a significant place in the history of 20th-century photography and has influenced countless photographers. more

“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.”

Knows Years May Made Stills Real Light Eye Black White Objects Illusion Transformation Photograph Intuition Celebrate Motivated Black And White Responding Radiance

Author:Ruth Bernhard

“Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other. It's a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point to what is in fact their own incompetence as the rationale for giving them yet more power.”

Giving Two Facts Government Tendencies Cycles Vicious Secrecy Incompetence Authoritarianism Rationale Vicious Cycles

Author:Josh Marshall

“Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.”

Reason Fall Betrayal Ridiculous Empires

Book:Night Film

Source: Night Film

“There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.”

World Mind Natural Theory Strings Quantum Mechanic Frontiers Natural World Quantum Mechanics Bending String Theory

Author:Marisha Pessl

“I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?”

Ends Worried Not Afraid Worms

Author:Marisha Pessl

“It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again.”

Understanding Defeated

Author:Marisha Pessl

“Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.”

People Littles Tragedy Awful Ruined Stale

Author:Tom Perrotta

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