65 Quotes by Ruth Bernhard

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.

I look at ordinary objects, and I see things that other people don't see. That's why I'm a photographer.

I think of the nudes as seed pods, like flowers or grasses. They are universal bodies.

I understood the craft of photography when done by an artist is art.

I'm no snapshot artist. I make very careful choices always, even if I'm using a 35mm camera.

I've always photographed beauty, but I've never been beautiful myself.

If I have chosen the female form in particular, it is because beauty has been debased and exploited in our sensual 20th century.

It seems a perfectly normal thing to be 95.

My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify, and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity.