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.
Ruth BernhardThe 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.
Ruth BernhardWoman 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.
Ruth BernhardI 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.
Ruth Bernhard