Lenses Quotes - Page 15

• Camera's are cheap. It's the lenses that are expensive.

  Jaume Collet-Serra

  Cameras, Expensive

  Source: collider.com

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• I admire narcissism in Momus and others who "own" it and use it as a way to explore ideas/themselves and also as a form of humor. I don't think of myself as narcissistic, but I'm definitely incredibly self absorbed. I guess I wonder if seeing the world through the lens of yourself is necessarily less valid than other ways of thinking/seeing though.

  Marie Calloway

  Thinking, Self, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Anamorphic is very difficult because the distance from the lens to the person to focus is very long so you need a lot of distance from the camera to the person so that means that you need a lot of space.

  Jaume Collet-Serra

  Distance, Mean, Space

  Source: collider.com

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• Photography is a life of learning. That's all I want from photography. I don't want the money. I don't need the fame. I don't need the admiration. I'd like all of those things, but I don't need them. Because what I get from photographing is learning. I have spent my life learning by looking through a lens.

  Rondal Partridge

  Photography, Needs, Want

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• When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or to cultivate a sense of purpose.

  Brené Brown

  Fear, Feelings, Ordinary

  Brené Brown (2013). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.18, Penguin UK

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• I was also writing in a tradition and trying to do something different with it, something that hadn't necessarily been done before, which was a risk, but it made it interesting. My relationship with food has been complicated and rocky and not always wonderful, and it's a lens through which my entire life and identity are refracted.

  Kate Christensen

  Writing, Interesting, Risk

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I can't see. I used to wear glasses off stage. Now I'm thinking of getting a pair of contract lenses.

  Tommy Bolin

  Thinking, Glasses, Pairs

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• No film is made without the people behind the lens. Of course, most people, even I, tend to look at films in the most simplistic way, and say, "Wow, so-and-so is in this film." We talk about who's in it, as opposed to who got it made. But there are financial and technical aspects which go along with it, that should be addressed and acknowledged, including those minorities who are doing excellent work as well.

  Melvin Van Peebles

  Excellent Work, People, Looks

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I had taken the photograph from afar (distance being the basic glitch in our relationship), using my Nikon and zoom lens while hiding behind a fake marble pillar. I was hiding because if he knew I'd been secretly photographing him for all these months he would think I was immature, neurotic and obsessive. I'm not. I'm an artist. Artists are always misunderstood.(Thwonk)

  Joan Bauer

  Distance, Taken, Artist

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• Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.

  Philip Yancey

  Grace, Unnoticed

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.42, Harper Collins

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• If life were a camera, I'd have the lens cap on.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Cameras, Caps, Ifs

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• 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

  Space, Sovereign, Outsiders

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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• Finally I got to the point where I said, I'd like to start a project where we can actually talk about race and poverty, not through the lens of a particular case, but much more broadly.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Race, Poverty, Projects

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• All the events of your past have formed a lens, or paradigm, through which you see the world. And since no one's past is exactly like anyone else's, no two people see alike.

  Sean Covey

  Respect, Past, Two

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• There were days, rainy gray days, when the streets of Brooklyn were worthy of a photograph, every window the lens of a Leica, the view grainy and immobile. We gathered our colored pencils and sheets of paper and drew like wild, feral children into the night, until, exhausted, we fell into bed. We lay in each other's arms, still awkward but happy, exchanging breathless kisses into sleep.

  Patti Smith

  Children, Sleep, Kissing

  "Just Kids". Book by Patti Smith, January 19, 2010.

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• I feel like I'm at a place in my life where I'm really strangely happy, and in awe of how great the world can be, and I think that's because I have gone through periods of looking at the world through a really melancholy lenses. It's all just flip sides of the same coin.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Thinking, Gone, Coins

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As soon as I look up, his eyes click onto my face. The breath whooshes out of my body and everything freezes for a second, as though I’m looking at him through my camera lens, zoomed in all the way, the world pausing for that tiny span of time between the opening and closing of the shutter.

  Lauren Oliver

  Eye, Love At First Sight, Cameras

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• 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 and pretended to focus his eye. It was a joke, but it added mystery to the picture. There's a sense of action in a very small world. Or with Allen Ginsberg there were people smoking cigarettes and in the smoke there's a sense of motion. It makes much out of very little.

  John Loengard

  Eye, Hands Up, People

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• It's hard to do a camera inside of a car. Non-Stop would have been impossible. Usually modern lenses you can focus up to the lens pretty much, but anamorphic you can't. You need like three feet.

  Jaume Collet-Serra

  Feet, Car, Focus

  Source: collider.com

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• I shot the way I wanted to shoot [in The Hateful Eight]. The only real disadvantage I felt at the time, but I don't feel now, was that we weren't able to get a zoom lens, and I had really gotten used to using a zoom lens for that little zoom creep. But it was also a nice thing to be forced to not use all the tools that you've gotten used to, from time to time, and to be able to work in a different way.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Real, Nice, Eight

  Source: collider.com

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• To me, feminism in literature deals with the female characters being in some way central to the thematic concerns of the book, or that they are agents of change to some degree. In other words, the lens is focused deeply and intensely on the female characters and doesn't waver, which allows for a glimpse into the rich inner lives of the characters.

  Laurie Foos

  Book, Character, Feminism

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In Ethiopia, food is often looked at through a strong spiritual lens, stronger than anywhere else I know. It's the focal point of weddings, births and funerals and is a daily ceremony from the preparation of the meal and the washing of hands to the sharing of meals.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Spiritual, Strong, Hands

  "Everybody’s Talking About Food". Huffington Post Article, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2010.

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• You have to realize there are other people, other economies, governments, cultures, religions, and destinies going on at the same time as yours. You have to widen the scope of your lens and start seeing more.

  Henry Rollins

  Destiny, Government, Culture Religion

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Some of the people who are now manipulating photos, such as Andreas Gursky, make the argument - rightly - that the 'straight' photographs of the 1940s and 50s were no such thing. Ansell Adams would slap a red filter on his lens, then spend three days burning and dodging in the dark room, making his prints. That's a manipulation. Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

  Joel Sternfeld

  Dark, People, Filters

  "False witness" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2004.

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• My mission is to change the way people see the world. Everybody has a perspective or a lens they see things through, and hopefully I can adjust that lens or change that lens so that they see things from a different perspective, a different lens.

  LeCrae

  Perspective, People, World

  Source: www.wheatonrecord.com

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