Lenses Quotes

267 quotes by 213 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
Paparazzi need more flattering lenses. — Sandra Bullock
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
Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at the pool of… — Helena Bonham Carter
It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians. — Chuck Close
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
Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by… — Martin Gardner
It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits… — Kenichi Ohmae
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
This is a good look. I'm gonna mess him up," Pattinson praises Stewart. "And I'm just like, I don't know what's going on? Where am… — Robert Pattinson
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
My first priority when taking pictures is to achieve clarity. A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation with the utmost fidelity; achieving… — Sam Abell
Give half a dozen men the same camera, lenses and plates, and send them to the same place to do the same thing, and all… — Frederick H. Evans
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

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