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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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