Lens Quotes

207 quotes by 190 authors

You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens. — David Bailey
I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where… — Andre Agassi
Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd… — Graydon Carter
Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture. — Brian D. McLaren
Anytime you stop and talk to somebody and you learn about them, you start to walk in their shoes a little bit and you see… — Anderson Cooper
In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified. — John Updike
If I had stood at the free-throw line and thought about 10 million people watching me on the other side of the camera lens, I… — Michael Jordan
If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is… — Eve Arnold
I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of presentation seen on… — Edward Weston
The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel… — Edward Weston
I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect. — Edward Weston
It is essential for the photographer to know the effect of his lenses. The lens is his eye, and it makes or ruins his pictures.… — Bill Brandt
The way Americans most understand the history of Latinos in this country, a lot of it is being told now through the lens of what's… — Ken Salazar
I have a thing with the camera. The lens is unconditional. It doesn't judge you. — Debra Winger
The difference between an amateur and a professional photographer is that the amateur thinks the camera does the work. And they treat the camera with… — David Hemmings
Humor is about perspective, and hanging out with people who see life through a similar lens is so important. — Mariska Hargitay
I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move. — Matthew Gray Gubler
The way you talk about yourself and your life-your story-has a great deal to do with what shows up in your day-to-day experience. Your thoughts… — David Emerald Womeldorff
No matter what lens you use, no matter what speed the film, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you print it, you… — Paul Strand
I think the 50mm lens is an extremely good discipline lens; it requires you to see in a more refined way, not just tighter. — William Albert Allard

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