Lenses Quotes

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Peace can be a lens through which you see the world. Be it. Live it. Radiate it out. Peace is an inside job.

A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.

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.

The answers to our questions are everywhere; we just need to change the lens with which we see the world.

Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.

The lens we choose transforms the way we look at things.

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

We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and inward.

The #‎ zodiac sign on the #‎ Ascendant normally tells us much concerning the dharma of the individual - that is, the central potentiality which the person should seek consciously to actualize as a vessel or lens through which the Divine may act.

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.

If you're asking whether I intentionally mess up my hair, no, I don't. And certain things, like my freckles, they're just there. I don't do anything consciously. I suppose I could get contact lenses. I suppose I could comb my hair more often.

The world can only appear monochromatic to those who persist in interpreting what they experience through the lens of a single cultural paradigm, their own. For those with the eyes to see and the heart to feel, it remains a rich and complex topography of the spirit.

I think the 50mm lens is an extremely good discipline lens; it requires you to see in a more refined way, not just tighter.

When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater.

Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.

By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses.

They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that.

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

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.

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

There is something electrifying about individuals with adventuresome spirits. They see life through a different lens. They almost emit electricity because nothing about them is dull or uninteresting or unplugged.

Because I am a horrible flincher, contact lenses are not an option. I'm always envious of contact-wearers. There are endless reasons to take off one's glasses during the day and, as I have grown older, what I don't see has become increasingly pronounced.

I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.

Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.

The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But] the cinema realizes the paradox of moulding itself on the time of the object and of taking the imprint of its duration as well.

The longer we view ourselves through a distorted lens, the more likely we are to believe a distorted truth.

Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.

I could only shoot when the subway was on the other platform. Little things like that, and the platform is very narrow. It's not like you can hide if a subway comes so a lot of things happened because of that. Or a thousand people just came and looked straight into the lens like they didn't expect a movie to be shooting.

You don't need a new life, just a new lens through which to view the one you have.

The youthful sparkle in Ronald Reagan's eyes is caused by his contact lenses, which he keeps highly polished.

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

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

But whether you stay or go, the critical decision you can make is to stop letting your partner distort the lens of your life, always forcing his way into the center of the picture. You deserve to have your life be about you; you are worth it.

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.

It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on.

I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.

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.

I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else.

I grew up as a cameraman, so it's much easier for me to shoot it myself. I work with an operator and a crew, but it's way easier for me to function as a cinematographer, than to have a cinematographer between me and the lens. I don't need that.

We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.

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.

She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.

Times have changed; so must the lenses through which we see the political future.

Contact lenses make me miserable, as soon as I put them in. That's what creates the pouting and brooding character.

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

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.

People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.

Jim Pagliaroni joined the club tonight and is going to be a welcome addition. He was describing a girl that one of the ballplayers had been out with and said, “It's hard to say exactly what she looked like. She was kind of Joe Torre with tits.” This joke can only be explained with a picture of Joe Torre. But I'm not sure any exist. He dissolves camera lenses.