Ruth Bernhard Quotes

Photography was a blessing because it filled my time. If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

I have no regrets. I feel very grateful for the life that I had - you know, family I live with; and I've been doing work that I love, ever since I came to Nashville.

What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

Egon Schiele is my favorite painter. There's just something about art - photography, painting, music, plays - whatever you see, sometimes there's a gut reaction that's more important or more visceral than what your brain is thinking about. You can't explain that reaction. It's like what happens when you fall in love.

Everything I choose to photograph, I think is beautiful.

I just started taking pictures, and it was - it was an instant love affair. It was just ecstatic.

Seriously, though, I think I never ceased to be grateful of the fact that I am able to do a job that I really love - I never got over that.

I have no regrets about my life.

In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.

I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.

Even though what I do does enter the market, it doesn't interest me. I am exclusively concerned with the formal qualities of my work. It is about the need and the right to self-expression.

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.

I'm happy. I've had a great career. I adore my family. My closest friends from decades ago remain my closest friends.

I'm very grateful of my life and my career and the movies I've been able to make.

There's nothing I would do differently, no wishing I had done this or done that.

Art - be it painting, sculpture, music - they are all creations, they are creative acts. I consider a film, with everything that is involved in it, an art.

I don't paint, and I can't draw, but I see things, I think, quite well, and I love being able to freeze things with the camera, particularly the children. Then I discovered with the camera that you can tell a whole story with just freezing a moment in reality. I find it a very good way, a very satisfying feeling.

I never thought of myself as successful. I have just done what I love to do. I appreciate that I can continue working as a musician every day.

I realized on my first day on set of 'Miss Potter' that there wasn't going to be anything else that could make me as happy or feel as fulfilled as acting does.

I wouldn't want to change anything about my career.

I feel immensely blessed - not just that I'm working, but that I'm working on projects that I really care about and like. I've always been that way.

My passion for painting is so sacred and personal to me.

I'm a lover of film and storytelling. I believe that I was put on earth to tell stories, and I'm not interested in telling the same stories over and over and over again.