Ruth Bernhard

Seeing comes from the inside, from the heart, from life's experiences.

I was a very, very careful printer when I used 8-by-10 film. I probably spent more time on printing than anything else. The more the prints were appreciated, the more time I spent on them.

To indicate the ideal proportion and reveal sculptural mass and the dominating spirit is my goal.

The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.