Lenses Quotes - Page 6

The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.

Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps

Art is the lens through which I experience the world. Art is the medium to present the human condition... love, fear, bewilderment, pleasure, distaste, brotherhood and all the subtleties that we all know.

Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.

You need to marry the qualitative with the quantitative. It better informs us so we can decide what to do. We can't be afraid of data and analysis. We have to use that lens.

Just put on the lens and go.

With the aid of a minute correction - that of the dispersing lens - in a gold frame perched on her nose, Miranda can see into hell.

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.

It is sometimes desirable to distort or accentuate with lenses of various focal lengths... Deliberate distortion may actually add to its reality.

We're so conditioned to the syntax of the camera that we don't realize that we are running on only half the visual alphabet... It's what we see every day in the magazines, on billboards and even on television. All those images are being produced basically the same way, through a lens and a camera. I'm saying there are many, many other ways to produce photographic imagery, and I would imagine that a lot of them have yet to be explored.

I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.

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.

People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.

The most important lens you have is your legs

The eyes of childhood are magnifying lenses.

I'm a natural behind the camera... My attentions are more toward behind the scenes, more toward creating, producing, and directing what's going on here... When I finally do pop in front of the lens, I'm genuinely glad and relieved to be there.

If life were a camera, I'd have the lens cap on.

Those who see the world through the lens of love are the true visionaries.

A sibling is the lens through which you see your childhood.

The world has found lenses on its nose without knowing whom to thank

When I am able to be present, listening - really listening - to a viewpoint described through someone else's lens, I am here in the now and alive.

I can't see. I used to wear glasses off stage. Now I'm thinking of getting a pair of contract lenses.

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.

There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.

Comedy takes all of life and puts it through a lens of acceptance, just by the mere act of talking about it on stage in a communal setting. It's very primal and ritualistic in that sense.