Best Lens Quotes

207 Lens quotes by 190 unique authors

I'd really rather leave it to others to say what they see in it and to see if I've put something into my photographs beyond… — Bruce Barnbaum
Creativity needs to extend beyond the lens. Find creative ways to showcase your work and get it seen. Straight up tenacity, hard work and determination… — Jimmy Chin
A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part… — Diane Ackerman
When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are, in effect, imprisoned… — Marcus Borg
I know of few actresses who have this incredible talent for communicating with a camera lens. She would try to seduce a camera as if… — Philippe Halsman
Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the… — Ansel Adams
I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer… — Azar Nafisi
"I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening to us," Jean Giraudoux wrote in The Madwoman of Chaillot, "and that… — Frank Drake
Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world. — Stephen Covey
Elizabeth Taylor is, in my opinion, the greatest actress in film history. She instinctively understands the camera and its nonverbal intimacies. Opening her violet eyes,… — Camille Paglia
When I began to photograph nudes, I let myself be guided by this camera, and instead of photographing what I saw, I photographed what the… — Bill Brandt
Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play… — Franz Kafka
The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong. — Marvin Olasky
From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour, — Julia Margaret Cameron
From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour, and it has become to me as a living thing, with voice and… — Julia Margaret Cameron
Titles or organizational structures, that’s not the lens through which we see our peers, — Jonathan Ive
[It's] the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality. And if we can change the lens, not only can we… — Shawn Achor
The difference in 'seeing' between the eye and the lens should make it obvious that a photographer who merely points his camera at an appealing… — Andreas Feininger
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… — Andy Goldsworthy
Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera. — William Maxwell
This is the power of art: The power to transcend our own self-interest, our solipsistic zoom-lens on life, and relate to the world and each… — Maria Popova
One of the stories I love is how Gutenberg’s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden people across Europe… — Steven Johnson
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of 'What happens when things go wrong?' — Ben Horowitz
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… — Audre Lorde
You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you… — Dag Hammarskjold

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