Lenses Quotes - Page 4

• From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Firsts, Moments, Tenderness

  Julia Margaret Cameron, Anita Ventura Mozley (1974). “"Mrs. Cameron's Photographs from the Life": Exhibition Held 22 January-10 March 1974, Stanford University Museum of Art”

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• I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.

  Rita Dove

  Sex, Race, Age

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• It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.

  Ville Valo

  Beautiful, Ideas, People

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• Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades.

  Michael Patrick Jann

  Night, Light, Feelings

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• The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong.

  Marvin Olasky

  Christian, Religious, Believe

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• It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Art, Mirrors

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• I always wanted to know what lens they were on, how close they were. I didn't do it with a plan in mind, but I would instinctively gear what I was doing toward what lenses they were using.

  Donna Mills

  Mind, Gears, Plans

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• I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Views, World, Might

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• It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.

  Kevin Spacey

  Missing You, Believe, Looks

  "New Again: Kevin Spacey". Interview with Mare Winningham, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 27, 2016.

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• I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element.

  Herb Ritts

  Thinking, Keys, People

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• That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.

  Ville Valo

  Writing, People, Romance

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• Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Men, Scientist, He Man

  Thomas S. Kuhn (1970). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”

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• I've always thought of myself as an organic writer, rather than a cerebral one. I feel my way along as I go, hoping I'll get to the place I intend to reach.

  Len Wein

  Way, Feels, Cerebral

  "Speaking with...LEN WEIN". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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• I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important.

  Len Wein

  Differences, Important, Plot

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• It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Powerful, Space

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.22, Full Moon Publications

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• A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.

  Diane Ackerman

  Art, Self, People

  Diane Ackerman (2004). “An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are, in effect, imprisoned by it. On the other hand, tradition can be understood as a pointer to that which is beyond tradition: the sacred. Then it functions not as a prison but as a lens.

  Marcus Borg

  Hands, Judging, Directors

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• I know of few actresses who have this incredible talent for communicating with a camera lens. She would try to seduce a camera as if it were a human being.

  Philippe Halsman

  Trying, Actresses, Cameras

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• I am not a scientist. I have never analyzed the far reaches of the solar system through the lens of a telescope nor scrutinized cancer cells under a microscope.

  Gordon Gee

  Cancer, Cells, Telescopes

  "The Research University: Too Vital to Fail" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 21, 2012.

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• I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.

  Eve Arnold

  People, Ordinary, Fronts

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• You can tell a good ruined lens, right from the get-go.... That’s the kind of lens I'm looking for.

  Sally Mann

  Kind, Ruined

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• For an actor working in television or film, I think it's important to understand how the medium works - how the camera and lenses work and how the sound and the editing works.

  Simon Baker

  Thinking, Editing, Important

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

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