Lenses Quotes - Page 19

• The lens is a tyranny.

  David Hockney

  Tyranny

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• When a person looks through a colored lens, everything seems to be that color. If the lens is tinted yellow or blue, everything seems yellow or blue. A person who looks at life through the lens of gratitude will always find things to be grateful for.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Gratitude, Grateful, Yellow

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• So I tried to get my shot with a 50mm and I did it - this is when we're shooting film, not digital. The guy that hired me looked through the pictures and was like, "Oh, this is pretty good. You did a good job." And I was like, "Yeah, I'm sorry. I only had a 50mm. My girlfriend rented the wrong lens..." and he stopped looking at the pictures and he looked up at me and he said, "You shot this with a 50mm? You're hired."

  Jeff Vespa

  Girlfriend, Jobs, Sorry

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Spectacular sporting events are bread & circuses. The Superbowl, for instance, is anything but "super". It is a Petri dish under the lens of mediaocrity, where surveillance of the spectators is just as mind numbing as the incomprehensible homo-erotic beefcake ballet being enacted on the pitch

  Dean Cavanagh

  Ballet, Erotic, Mind

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• It's important to choose initial investors who are not twitchy and rushing for an exit. Wall Street's quarter-by-quarter lens may make the CEO make sub-optimal long-term decisions.

  Roelof Botha

  Wall, Rushing, Long

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• Our past is not, as some fear, a series of events carved in stone that we must carry around for the rest of our lives... but a kaleidoscope of experiences that, when viewed through different lenses, can 'color' (change) how we see our present and future.

  Bill Crawford

  Past, Color, Events

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• I come from a visual background. I used to work in the camera department at Warner Bros. when I was a teenager. I grew up dusting lenses and learning about photography.

  Colin Hanks

  Photography, Teenager, Cameras

  Source: collider.com

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• Literally as well as metaphorically, the man accustomed to inverting lenses has undergone a revolutionary transformation of vision.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Men, Vision, Transformation

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.113, University of Chicago Press

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• For the heavenly fire no longer strikes depraved cities, it is rather the lens which cuts through ordinary reality like a laser, putting it to death.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Cutting, Reality, Fire

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• I'm completely at ease on a set. I'm pretty comfortable most places, but hitting the mark and knowing set etiquette and understanding cameras and lenses are second nature. It's a language I've spoken for years.

  Zoe Bell

  Years, Knowing, Understanding

  Source: collider.com

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• People think of science like somehow that's the answer, and that it's all about right answers, but science is a lens that we look at the world through.

  Dallas Campbell

  Thinking, People, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which you end up understanding all economic and political events.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Political, Understanding, Events

  Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. (2013). “Fascism versus Capitalism”, p.144, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!

  Salvador Dali

  Photography, Unexpected, Surprise

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• Leica are known for their still camera lenses and in the last year and a half have come out with a series of film lenses and they are brilliant. The best thing about them, apart from their quality, which is uniform, is that each one is the same size, pretty much the same weight... So in terms of fitting into the rig, everything is almost purpose built for that and the quality is beautiful, really beautiful.

  Michael Seresin

  Beautiful, Years, Quality

  Source: collider.com

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• We all have those dreams of going back in time and seeing what it was like when our parents were younger. Maybe we don't all have that dream. I don't know. Getting to role play or step back to a different moment in time and see things through a different lens is something that resonated with me, for sure. We don't get to do that, generally, but when the right neurological disorder lines up with the right unstable woman, that moment presents itself. Getting to know where we come from is a really profound way of getting to look at who we are.

  Simon Helberg

  Dream, Play, Profound

  Source: collider.com

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• When you choose not to forgive... it is you who are forced every day to look at life through contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep them.

  Gary Zukav

  Generosity, Forgiving, Looks

  Gary Zukav (2014). “The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• Herein lies the main objective of portraiture and also its main difficulty. The photographer probes for the innermost. The lens sees only the surface... .

  Philippe Halsman

  Lying, Portraiture, Photographer

  Philippe Halsman (1972). “Halsman sight and insight”

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• The thing represented had to pass through two distorting lenses: the artist's mind, and his medium of expression, before it emerged as a man-made dream - the two, of course, being intimately connected and interacting with each other.

  Arthur Koestler

  Dream, Artist, Men

  Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Time is the very lens through which ye see - small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a telescope - something that would otherwise be too big for ye to see at all. That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves parts of eternal reality.

  C. S. Lewis

  Reality, Men, Telescopes

  "The Great Divorce". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1945.

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• My work is about the establishment of trust. For someone to share their authenticity with me is a soul-to-soul thing. It's not a lens-to-soul thing.

  Lisa Kristine

  Soul, Authenticity, Share

  FaceBook post by Lisa Kristine from Apr 26, 2014

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• Look at everything through the lens of eternity. If you will do this, life will take on a different perspective.

  James E. Faust

  Perspective, Different, Looks

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• For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career. As soon as I find a subject which interests me, I leave it to the lens to record it truthfully. Look at the reporters and at the amateur photographer! They both have only one goal; to record a memory or a document. And that is pure photography.

  Andre Kertesz

  Photography, Memories, Careers

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• If at times my eyes are lenses through which the brain explores constellations of feeling my ears yielding like swinging doors admit princes to the corridors into the mind, do not envy me. I have a beast on my back.

  Gavin Douglas

  Eye, Doors, Envy

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• I've heard that it's some kind of weird two-lens system where the back camera uses two lenses and it somehow takes it up into DSLR quality imagery.

  John Gruber

  Two, Quality, Cameras

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• Just put on the lens and go.

  Miroslav Tichy

  Photography

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