Light is my inspiration. My photographic images search for dimensions that words cannot touch- the result of intense responses to personal experience…

- Ruth Bernhard

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

- Ruth Bernhard

If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.

- Ruth Bernhard

The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own …

- Ruth Bernhard

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

- 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 …

- Ruth Bernhard

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 …

- Ruth Bernhard

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 i…

- Ruth Bernhard

There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.

- Ruth Bernhard