Lenses Quote by John Updike Download Open image “In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.” — John Updike ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Lenses Memories Memory
One must be able to see the bigger picture in order to be able to focus on what needs to be magnified. — Wade Gardner Copy Share Image
With a short lens I can reveal the hidden things near at hand, with a long lens the hidden things far away. The telephoto… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very… — Robert Grosseteste Copy Share Image
The precise effects of lensing depend on the mass of the lens, the structure of space-time, and the relative distance between us, the lens,… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens. — David Bailey Copy Share Image
A small lens gives you a very specific look. You don't have a shallow depth of field. — Sean Baker Copy Share Image
So often when we historicize material, we use this big wide-angle lens. — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy. — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Everything made by human hands looks terrible under magnification--crude, rough, and asymmetrical. But in nature every bit of life is lovely. And the more… — Roman Vishniac Copy Share Image
Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The mind cannot fall asleep as long as it watches itself. Only when the mind moves unwatched and becomes absorbed in images that tug… — John Updike Copy Share Image
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Her hair had been going gray as long as he could remember; she bundled it behind in a bun held with hairpins that he… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
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… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
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… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
But whether you stay or go, the critical decision you can make is to stop letting your partner distort the lens of your life,… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
I'm educating myself more about world poetry. I know a lot about contemporary American poetry, so I felt I needed to learn more about… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Photography is solitary and there are lags between seeing with your eyes and seeing through the lens, and then seeing the image on your… — Christian Marclay Copy Share Image
I never use a telephoto lens. I need to be close to people. I need their complicity; I need them to be aware that… — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
The success of the Starbucks has been based on this balance between profitability and a social conscience. Everywhere we're doing business, were trying to… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
There is no romance without some lying. That's what romance is - a little bit of Vaseline on the camera lens of life. — Richard Jeni Copy Share Image
