Lenses Quotes - Page 18

• Drama is drama, and it's really... if it's something small, you put a magnifying glass up to it; if it's something big, you use a wide lens.

  Gore Verbinski

  Drama, Glasses, Use

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• Is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add color—it’s a pot boiler really, but I think it will show how isolated a person feels when he is suffering a breakdown . . . I’ve tried to picture my world and the people in it as seen through the distorting lens of a bell jar.

  Sylvia Plath

  Thinking, Color, People

  sylvia plath (1971). “the bell jar”

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• I know of several children and adults (with Asperger’s Syndrome) who have reported a considerable reduction in visual sensitivity and sensory overload when wearing Irlen lenses.

  Tony Attwood

  Children, Adults, Aspergers

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• Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism

  Criss Jami

  Inspirational, Optimistic, Positivity

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.91, Criss Jami

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• The world I feel, within the realm of art, is more genuine than the wrorld of matter. Artistic feeling is not tape measures, spectrographs, or flash camera lens.

  Gu Cheng

  Art, Feelings, Cameras

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• Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye, that is a lens which opens reaches into the unknown, and reveals orbs which no telescope, however skilfully constructed, could do.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Stars, Eye, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.20

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• I never use a telephoto lens. I need to be close to people. I need their complicity; I need them to be aware that I am there taking their picture. I hate paparazzi.

  Graciela Iturbide

  Hate, People, Needs

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• Of course, the camera is a far more objective and trustworthy witness than a human being. We know that a Brueghel or Goya or James Ensor can have visions or hallucinations, but it is generally admitted that a camera can photograph only what is actually there, standing in the real world before its lens.

  Hannah Hoch

  Real, Vision, Goya

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• 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

  Running, Cameras, Syntax

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• The lens, that allegedly impartial eye, permits all possible distortions of reality... The importance of photography lies not only in the fact that it is a creation, but above all in the fact that it is one of the most effective means of shaping our ideas and influencing our behavior.

  Gisele Freund

  Photography, Lying, Mean

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• My grandfather killed himself falling off the dike in Ostend while photographing my two cousins. This can happen so easily when looking through a lens: for a split second nothing else exists outside the frame.

  Martine Franck

  Cousin, Fall, Two

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• To the oft-asked question, What camera or lens do you use? I can only reply I couldn't tell to save my soul - it is enough for me to know that I have something that will make pictures and that it is in working order.

  Edward S. Curtis

  Order, Soul, Use

  Shannon Lowry, Edward S. Curtis (1994). “Natives of the Far North: Alaska's Vanishing Culture in the Eye of Edward Sheriff Curtis”, p.6, Stackpole Books

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• I would say my sex drive is weaker than most. However, my lens has a permanent erection.

  Nobuyoshi Araki

  Sex, Sex Drive, Permanent

  "TJ Archived Feature Story: Issue #245 Fall 2002". TJ Interview, www.tokyojournal.com. 2002.

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• We always point the lens both outward and inward.

  Paul Caponigro

  Inward

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• A camera is wild in just about anybody's hands, therefore one must set limits. But cameras have a life of their own. Cameras care nothing about cults or isms. They are indifferent mechanical eyes, ready to devour anything in sight. They are lenses of the unlimited reproduction.

  Robert Smithson

  Eye, Sight, Hands

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.372, Univ of California Press

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• Everything at Apple can be best understood through the lens of designing. Whether it's designing the look and feel of the user experience, or the industrial design, or the system design, and even things like how the boards were laid out.

  John Sculley

  Apples, Design, Boards

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Photography is solitary and there are lags between seeing with your eyes and seeing through the lens, and then seeing the image on your computer... I often see things after the fact. So there’s a revelatory quality. And this definitely includes a sense of playfulness, because you’re not sure what the consequences are going to be.

  Christian Marclay

  Photography, Eye, Quality

  "Music I’ve Seen". Interview with Frances Richard, aperture.org.

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• I've been through some very dark times in my life and I've been through those very dark times that's affected my world view, the lens that I see people through, so I can relate to that.

  Rainn Wilson

  Dark, Views, People

  Source: mynorthwest.com

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• You do not see with the lens of the eye. You seen through that, and by means of that, but you see with the soul of the eye.

  John Ruskin

  Mean, Eye, Soul

  John Ruskin (1906). “The Works of John Ruskin”

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• The mind can be thought of as containing reels and reels of motion picture film about our past experiences. These images are superimposed not only on each other but also on the lens through which we experience the present.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Past, Mind, Experience

  Gerald G. Jampolsky (2010). “Love Is Letting Go of Fear, Third Edition”, p.42, Celestial Arts

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• Sometimes when you're making a film and something happens during a scene that you've just thought of, it can be missed if the wrong lens is on or if you're shooting in the wrong direction but this [performance capture] doesn't miss a thing. So, you might do something that's genius - very rarely, admittedly - but it doesn't miss it.

  Ray Winstone

  Missing, Might, Genius

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should an artist persist in treating subjects that can be established so clearly with the lens of a camera?

  Pablo Picasso

  Photography, Artist, Cameras

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• Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all have this mindset that the answers are so complex and so vast that it is almost impossible to comprehend. I think, on the contrary, that the answers are so simple; so simple that it is staring us straight in the face, screaming its lungs out, and yet we fail to notice it. We're looking through a telescope, searching the stars for the answer, when the answer is actually a speck of dirt on the telescope lens.

  Jason Calacanis

  Life, Stars, Simple

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• Artists see the world in a very different way than everyone else, and it's important when the artist points a lens at the law.

  Thane Rosenbaum

  Artist, Law, Important

  "The 'Ready for Her Close-Up' Transcript" by Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. May 26, 2015.

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• If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal stars so far away that even the most powerful telescopes fail to reveal them to the naked eye. In a similar way, time and concentration allow the intellect to perceive a ray of light in the darkness of the most complex problem.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Stars, Powerful, Eye

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Neely Swanson, Larry W. Swanson (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.59, MIT Press

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