Quotes by Lenses We're so conditioned to the syntax of the camera that we don't realize that we are running on only half the visual alphabet... It's what we see every day in the magazines, on billboards and even on television. All those images are being produced basically the same way, through a lens and a camera. I'm saying there are many, many other ways to produce photographic imagery, and I would imagine that a lot of them have yet to be explored. Adam Fuss lenses cameras running Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture. Alberto Korda lenses dollars cameras What I was interested in is the lens organizing my sovereign space. I avoid the term outsider and also exile for the same reason. Outsider implies a kind of nobility. Aleksandar Hemon sovereign lenses space I think as I get older that's an area that I'd like to explore more. Going from being in front of the lens to behind it. Alexa Chung lenses behinds thinking In our efforts to get human beings empirically into focus in ethics, we have a standing obligation not only to revisit and, if necessary, rework our conception of human importance, but also to ensure that our best conception is indeed the lens through which we look at our fellow human beings. Alice Crary lenses effort focus 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 figures like Borges, Akhmatova, Neruda, etc. I felt I needed a bigger lens to see poetry through. It really helps to see poetry as a world language, and not just something American. Allison Joseph lenses etc world Art is the lens through which I experience the world. Art is the medium to present the human condition... love, fear, bewilderment, pleasure, distaste, brotherhood and all the subtleties that we all know. Alton Tobey lenses brotherhood art Stage performance is obviously a much grander sort of depiction. The audience isn't right in your face as close as a camera lens gets. Amanda Schull stage-performance lenses cameras The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world. Anais Nin lenses self world The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But] the cinema realizes the paradox of moulding itself on the time of the object and of taking the imprint of its duration as well. Andre Bazin lenses duration cinema They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that. Andy Garcia lenses naked long Now I lay me down to sleep Knowing that your lenses peep Now I eat my daily bread And into the tape spool I'll be fed Andy Partridge lenses knowing sleep A sibling is the lens through which you see your childhood. Ann Hood lenses childhood sibling Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps Ann Voskamp warp lenses world The sacred cannot be precisely defined. Each of us perceives it through the lens of a unique personal history. For me, sacredness is an experience of the inner radiance of life, the unseen force that transforms and nourishes the physical world but is never limited by it. There is something more to it, a mystery that is never totally grasped. Anthony Lawlor unseen lenses unique The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion. Arthur C. Clarke lenses fit mind It is sometimes desirable to distort or accentuate with lenses of various focal lengths... Deliberate distortion may actually add to its reality. Arthur Rothstein lenses add reality I hope that this [hacking] does not continue to be viewed purely through a partisan lens.I think there are Republicans as well as Democrats who are concerned about this. Barack Obama hacking lenses thinking When raising money, you want to look through the lens of 'What happens when things go wrong?' Ben Horowitz lenses want looks If a medium is representational by nature of the realistic image formed by a lens, I see no reason why we should stand on our heads to distort that function. On the contrary, we should take hold of that very quality, make use of it, and explore it to the fullest. Berenice Abbott lenses quality use 12345678910»