Best Lenses Quotes
267 Lenses quotes by 211 unique authors
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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
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Humor is about perspective, and hanging out with people who see life through a similar lens is so important.
— Mariska Hargitay
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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
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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
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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
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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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The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens…
— Jean Genet
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This is not a matter of virtue-it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural,…
— David Foster Wallace
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Over half the people in the United States wear corrective lenses, and almost all of them are capable of seeing much more clearly - if…
— Jacob Liberman
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A powerful hand lens [Eschenback Leutchlupe] with a focused beam of light opens up an entire world below the threshold of the ordinary experience of…
— Allen Lacy
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We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it…
— David Warlick
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If you look at yourself and life through the lens of your ego, you'll feel isolated, ganged up on, alone, dfferent, and not part of…
— Sonia Choquette
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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
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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
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It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.
— Stephen Covey
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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
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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
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I am always surprised when I see several cameras, a gaggle on lenses, filters, meters, et cetera, rattling around in a soft bag with a…
— Ansel Adams
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