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

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• Ruth Bernhard:

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

• Ruth Bernhard:

  I learned early on that if I was to get attention, I would have to be charming. Even the models I'v

• Ruth Bernhard:

  When I was young, anywhere I would go in Germany, I would see my father's posters. Everyone knew ab

• Ruth Bernhard:

  It seems a perfectly normal thing to be 95.

• Ruth Bernhard:

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

• Ruth Bernhard:

  I have no regrets about my work. To be a photographer was a gift of the gods. I can't imagine anyth

• Ruth Bernhard:

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

• Ruth Bernhard:

  I was a very, very careful printer when I used 8-by-10 film. I probably spent more time on printing

• Ruth Bernhard:

  I had a natural feeling for sculpture, and the nudes are my sculpture.

• Ruth Bernhard:

  Everything I do is a metaphor of the universal order.