Quotes and Sayings About Lenses
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In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.
-- Alan Dundes -
Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.
-- Alberto Korda -
Art is the lens through which I experience the world. Art is the medium to present the human condition... love, fear, bewilderment, pleasure, distaste, brotherhood and all the subtleties that we all know...
-- Alton Tobey -
The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world ...
-- Anais Nin -
They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that.
-- Andy Garcia -
My approach to photograph is kept simple, almost routine. All work, good and bad, is documented. I use standard film, a standard lens and no filters. Each work grows, strays, decays-integral parts of a cycle which the photograph shows at its height, marking the moment when the work is most alive. There is an intensity about a work at its peak that I hope is expresses in the image. Process and decay are implicit.
-- Andy Goldsworthy -
Now I lay me down to sleep Knowing that your lenses peep Now I eat my daily bread And into the tape spool I'll be fed
-- Andy Partridge -
A sibling is the lens through which you see your childhood.
-- Ann Hood -
Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps
-- Ann Voskamp -
The sacred cannot be precisely defined. Each of us perceives it through the lens of a unique personal history. For me, sacredness is an experience of the inner radiance of life, the unseen force that transforms and nourishes the physical world but is never limited by it. There is something more to it, a mystery that is never totally grasped.
-- Anthony Lawlor -
The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of. Our erotic knowledge empowers us, becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence, forcing us to evaluate those aspects honestly in terms of their relative meaning within our lives. . . .
-- Audre Lorde -
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of 'What happens when things go wrong?'
-- Ben Horowitz -
If a medium is representational by nature of the realistic image formed by a lens, I see no reason why we should stand on our heads to distort that function. On the contrary, we should take hold of that very quality, make use of it, and explore it to the fullest.
-- Berenice Abbott -
Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.
-- Brian D. McLaren -
The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.
-- Charles R. Swindoll -
You see the world, you end up in jail three or four times, you accumulate experience. And it gives you something to say. If you don't have anything to say then you shouldn't be making films. It's nothing to do with what lens you're using.
-- Christopher Doyle -
The longer we view ourselves through a distorted lens, the more likely we are to believe a distorted truth.
-- Craig Groeschel -
The #‎ zodiac sign on the #‎ Ascendant normally tells us much concerning the dharma of the individual - that is, the central potentiality which the person should seek consciously to actualize as a vessel or lens through which the Divine may act.
-- Dane Rudhyar -
The whole thrust in my life right now is spinning my assignments around and making them work in a more personal way (...) I wanted to go back and do the original thing: one camera, one lens, one film. You really have to put yourself in a position of danger to be creative.
-- David Alan Harvey -
You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.
-- David Bailey -
My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.
-- David Eagleman -
In front of the camera and in front of the lens, there's no lawsuits, there's no agent, and there's most frequently no time limits. There's a longevity that's kind of built into it. I spend most of my time behind the scenes, and when it is time to perform, I'm genuinely delighted to do it.
-- David Lee Roth -
Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top of her contact lenses so that other traffic loomed menacingly out of nowhere like alien space cruisers.
-- David Nicholls -
She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.
-- Deborah Harkness -
I have a thing with the camera. The lens is unconditional. It doesn't judge you.
-- Debra Winger -
Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be seen.
-- Dennis Lehane -
The lens we choose transforms the way we look at things.
-- Dewitt Jones -
I always wanted to know what lens they were on, how close they were. I didn't do it with a plan in mind, but I would instinctively gear what I was doing toward what lenses they were using.
-- Donna Mills -
The eyes of childhood are magnifying lenses.
-- Edward Teller
