Lenses Quotes - Page 13

• 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 cannot say more than you can see.

  Paul Strand

  Use, Matter, Film

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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 of his spyglass has a flaw, a blurred spot -- the sail he has seen.

  Jean Genet

  Men, Spy, Remember

  Jean Genet (1994). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.58, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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, hard-wired default-setting, which is to be deeply and literally self-centered, and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self.

  David Foster Wallace

  Self, Matter, Virtue

  David Foster Wallace (2009). “This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life”, p.46, Hachette UK

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• Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one.

  Len Deighton

  Book, Interesting, Asking

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• I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books.

  Len Deighton

  Believe, Book, Writing

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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 lens, trusting the instrument will 'capture' something 'seen.' The terms shoot and take are not accidental; they represent an attitude of conquest and appropriation. Only when the photographer grows into perception and creative impulse does the term make define a condition of empathy between the external and the internal events.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Attitude, Empathy

  Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder (2017). “Ansel Adams: An Autobiography”, p.72, Hachette UK

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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 and a teacher, so much of my time is spent interpreting stories and connecting to other individuals. It is the urge to know more about ourselves and others that creates empathy. Through imagination and our desire for rapport, we transcend our limitations, freshen our eyes, and are able to look at ourselves and the world through a new and alternative lens.

  Azar Nafisi

  Teacher, Believe, Eye

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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 create filters through which you view your life. If you think of yourself as a Victim, you filter all that happens to you through the lens of DDT, and you find plenty of evidence to support that viewpoint. That's why the orientation you adopt is so important: it exerts a powerful influence on your life direction.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Powerful, Thinking, Views

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• 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 the instrument.

  Eve Arnold

  Photography, People, Cameras

  Eve Arnold (1976). “The Unretouched Woman”, Random House (NY)

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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

  Moving, Cameras, Directors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

  Stephen Covey

  Perception, Looks, World

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.7, Mango Media Inc.

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• Titles or organizational structures, that’s not the lens through which we see our peers.

  Jonathan Ive

  Titles, Peers, Structure

  "9 Things We Learned About Apple From Jony Ive's Latest Interview" by Samuel Gibbs, www.businessinsider.com. June 17, 2014.

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• It is part of the pholosophic dullness of our time that there are millions of rational monsters walking about on their hind legs, observing the world through pairs of flexible little lenses, periodically supplying themselves with energy by pushing organic substances through holes in their faces, who see nothing fabulous whatever about themselves.

  Martin Gardner

  Monsters, Energy, Substance

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• From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour, and it has become to me as a living thing, with voice and memory and creative vigour.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Memories, Voice, Creative

  Julia Margaret Cameron (1973). “Victorian photographs of famous men & fair women”, David R. Godine Publisher

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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 complement of refuse and dust. Sometimes the professional is the worst offender!

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Dust, Cameras

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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 camera was seeing. I interfered very little, and the lens produced anatomical images and shapes which my eyes had never observed.

  Bill Brandt

  Beauty, Eye, Cameras

  Bill Brandt (1993). “Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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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, she takes us into the liquid realm of emotion, which she inhabits by Pisces intuition. Richard Burton said that Taylor showed him how to act for the camera. Economy and understatement are essential. At her best, Elizabeth Taylor simply is. An electric, erotic charge vibrates the space between her face and the lens. It is an extra-sensory, pagan phenomenon.

  Camille Paglia

  Eye, Film History, Space

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.16, Vintage

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• Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.

  Stephen Covey

  Powerful, World, 7 Habits

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.31, Mango Media Inc.

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• I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.

  Len Deighton

  Writing, Way, Stores

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You see the world, you end up in jail three or four times, you accumulate experience. And it gives you something to say. If you don't have anything to say then you shouldn't be making films. It's nothing to do with what lens you're using.

  Christopher Doyle

  Jail, Giving, Three

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Unique, Unseen, Radiance

  Anthony Lawlor (1994). “The Temple in the House: Finding the Sacred in Everyday Architecture”, Tarcher

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• Our beliefs act as lenses. These lenses can help us see things we can't otherwise see, but they can also block us from seeing parts of reality.

  Steve Pavlina

  Block, Reality, Vision

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• But I never looked like that!’ - How do you know? What is the ‘you’ you might or might not look like? Where do you find it - by which morphological or expressive calibration? Where is your authentic body? You are the only one who can never see yourself except as an image; you never see your eyes unless they are dulled by the gaze they rest upon the mirror or the lens (I am interested in seeing my eyes only when they look at you): even and especially for your own body, you are condemned to the repertoire of its images.

  Roland Barthes

  Eye, Mirrors, Looks

  Roland Barthes (1994). “Roland Barthes”

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• She couldn't "heal" him. No woman could. Events that far in the past just couldn't be undone. But perhaps he didn't need a cure, but . . . a lens. Someone who accepted him for the imperfect person he was, and then helped him to see the world clear. Like spectacles did for her.

  Tessa Dare

  Past, Imperfect Person, Events

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• One of the stories I love is how Gutenberg’s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden people across Europe noticed for the first time that they were farsighted, and needed spectacles to read books (which they hadn’t really noticed before books became part of everyday life); which THEN created a market for lens makers, which then created pools of expertise in crafting lenses, which then led people to tinker with those lenses and invent the telescope and microscope, which then revolutionized science in countless ways.

  Steven Johnson

  Book, Love Is, Europe

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