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Ruth Bernhard (October 14, 1905 – December 18, 2006) was a German-born American photographer.

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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.

Body, Children, Mother, Suggesting

If you can't make the image bigger or more important than what you see, then don't push the button

Button, Buttons, Image, Important, Make, Photography

Fall in love. Every day. With everything. With life. If you can fall in love, you can be a photographer. I think that is absolutely essential.

Photography, Falling In Love, Love You, Everything, Love, Essential

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.

Cultivate, People, Person, Photographer, Photography, Trying

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

Photography, Photographer, Willing, See, Visible

It is so basic. A human being is an innocent part of nature. Our civilization has distorted this universal quality that allows us to feel at home in our skin. Other animals have coats that they accept, but the human race has yet to come to terms with being nude.

Home, Animal, Race, Nude, Universal, Quality

Every day I am aware of the flow and constant change; perhaps I am at the edge of discovering what more our bodies might be able to teach about the spirit of life. At least, I am always exploring and trying to understand our relationship to the whole universe.

Body, Change, Perhaps, Photography, Spirit, Trying

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.

Bound, Clouds, Nature, Together

There is nothing unimportant in the universe.

Nothing, Unimportant, Universe

Remember God likes us best when we are flying by the seats of our pants.

Flying, Likes, Pants, Seats

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

Photography, Insightful, Helping, Photographs, Tells, Help

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.

Black And White, Eye, Know, Love, Real, Years

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

Art, Photographer, Photography, Used

What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.

Black, Eye, Human, Photography, Real, Sees

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.

Photography, Inspiration, Curves, Life, Planet

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.

Comprehend, Inspiration, Light, Photography, Record

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.

Giving, Isolate, Light, Photography, Quest

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.

Find Me, Looks, Photograph, Say, See

Woman has been the target of much that is sordid and cheap, especially in photography. To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the image of woman, has been my mission.

Photography, Target, Photographer, Woman, Timeless

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

Life, Meaning, Not Interested, Photographer, Photography

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