Focus Quote by Wendy Whelan

Photography is choosing where to point your eye-cone.

— John Szarkowski

If you look at classic Hollywood films, they tend to shoot close-ups on quite long lenses and the background it out of focus. You…

— Tom Hooper

For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger…

— Diane Paulus

A small lens gives you a very specific look. You don't have a shallow depth of field.

— Sean Baker

I had always made pictures as I thought I saw the world, focusing on what lay in front, but this is not how one…

— Joseph Plaskett

In my comedy, I put things through a lens that is very specific to me.

— Julio Torres

Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras.

— Ansel Adams

This whole business of all these lenses is ridiculous. You know, it's like you have to capture your picture. You have to create it.…

— Carol Friedman

I was photographing the photographer Brassaï. He had very prominent eyes, like a frog's. As I focused my lens, he brought his hand up…

— John Loengard

One must be able to see the bigger picture in order to be able to focus on what needs to be magnified.

— Wade Gardner

Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that is direct…

— Ellsworth Kelly

[My] photos are often out of focus, rough, streaky, warped, etc. But if you think about it, a normal human being will in one…

— Daido Moriyama