Top Lenses Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Lenses quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Ruth Benedict
We do not see the lens through which we look.
- Ruth Benedict
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Image of Paul Strand
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.
- Paul Strand
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Image of Paul Caponigro
We always point the lens both outward and inward.
- Paul Caponigro
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Image of Janine Benyus
The answers to our questions are everywhere; we just need to change the lens with which we see the world.
- Janine Benyus
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Image of Nelson Rodrigues
The keyhole is my lens as a writer.
- Nelson Rodrigues
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Image of David Douglas
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.
- David Douglas
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Image of Dewitt Jones
The lens we choose transforms the way we look at things.
- Dewitt Jones
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Image of Haskell Wexler
When I was in Vietnam with Jane Fonda, I was shooting a farmer in a field - just a pastoral scene. And while I was shooting him, an explosion occurred right - he blew up right in my lens, so to speak. And he had stepped on a landmine.
- Haskell Wexler
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Image of Reggie Bush
The more money you get, the bigger target you become. That's true. It's sad but it's true that you have to be aware of every person that comes to you with the next greatest deal. You just have to look at every single person with a fine lens. That's the way my life is going to be from here on out.
- Reggie Bush
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Image of Chris Abani
What I do is create a lens through my work that corrects my readers' cognitive dissonance and says: you will see all of it - not what you want or what makes you comfortable, but all of it. And you will not erase what displeases you.
- Chris Abani
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Image of Michael Snow
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.
- Michael Snow
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Image of Ann Voskamp
Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps
- Ann Voskamp
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Image of Gretchen Rubin
I needed to change the lens through which I viewed everything familiar.
- Gretchen Rubin
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Image of Terry Tempest Williams
I am a Mormon woman, I am not orthodox. It is the lens through which I see the world. I hear the Tabernacle Choir and it still makes me weep.
- Terry Tempest Williams
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Image of Daniel J. Boorstin
But rather that we should lose our sense that neither can become the other, that the traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lense and the Cinerama screen tend to narrow it.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
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Image of Sally Mann
You can tell a good ruined lens, right from the get-go.... That’s the kind of lens I'm looking for.
- Sally Mann
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Image of Ben Horowitz
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of 'What happens when things go wrong?'
- Ben Horowitz
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Image of Feist
I don't want to take photographs that I won't recognize as myself, and myself isn't necessarily just blankly staring at the lens.
- Feist
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Image of David Hockney
The lens is a tyranny.
- David Hockney
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Image of Cathy O'Neil
Occupy provided me a lens through which to see systemic discrimination.
- Cathy O'Neil
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