110 Lens Quotes for You to Enjoy

I was bullied in high school, and it's interesting coming from the other side of the camera lens, finding out that all of these people that I thought were my antagonists in my life were probably just as insecure as I was at that age. Dacre Montgomery

I don't think my background in Zambia has really affected my lens because my classical training has been Western-style. But it's fantastically fortuitous to have been born African because I don't feel I have a vested interest to the U.S. or China or wherever. Dambisa Moyo

Training Think Background Has-Been Born Classical Feel Because Affected Been Vested Vested Interest African Wherever China Interest Lens Really Fortuitous

Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God. Dan Colen

Art God Think Kind About Through Which Lens

Food is a lens for culture. Dana Goodyear

Food Culture Lens

Commanded by God dozens of times in the Hebrew Bible to remember their past, Jews historically obeyed not by recording events but by ritually re-enacting them: by understanding the present through the lens of the past. Dara Horn

God Bible Events Remember Recording Understanding Past Jews Obeyed Through Historically Times Hebrew Them Lens Dozens Present

You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens. David Bailey

You Kind Photograph Invisible Longer Children Lens Use

You learn tricks to make action look more dynamic - having the fight come toward you or shooting on a longer lens to compress the speed. David Leitch

You Fight Action Speed Tricks Compress Having More Toward Longer Come Look Make Learn Shooting Dynamic Lens

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 Would Gear Toward Instinctively Know Always How Doing Were Close Wanted Plan Lens Lenses Using

'2001' used a lot of what's called 'front projection.' You project an image onto this giant reflective screen, and the image bounces back and comes back to the lens and seems to be in the background behind the actors. The whole 'dawn of man' sequence in '2001' was projected eight-by-ten photographs of the African savannah. Douglas Trumbull

You Man Projection Back Project Projected Background Giant Photographs Seems Onto Dawn Lot Reflective Front Behind Screen African Lens Used Sequence Whole Actor Image Savannah

We all have mental models: the lens through which we see the world that drive our responses to everything we experience. Being aware of your mental models is key to being objective. Elizabeth Thornton

Experience World Key Drive Our Everything Responses See Objective Mental Through Models Being Which Lens Your Aware

I think that focusing all experiences through the lens of the Internet is an example of not being able to see history through the eyes of others, to be so enamored of one's present time that one cannot see that the world was once elsewise and was not about you. Ellen Ullman

Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing. Elliott Erwitt

Before Photographing Take Sure Off Cap Lens

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

People Extraordinary See Simply Front Anybody Ordinary Either Them Lens

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. Eve Arnold

People Before Cares Photographer About Given Lens Much Compassionate

When you're used to looking through a stills lens and you have to capture an emotional moment, and that picture is not moving and yet it has to have impact, I think that's the first influence on my style. Gavin Hood

You First Picture Looking Style Think Impact Through Emotional Influence Moving Lens Used Moment Capture

Whenever I do someone's portrait, I'm trying to locate the photo in the lens while reaching into that person psychologically. There's the magic! I don't always achieve it. It's a hit or a miss! Gerard Malanga

Achieve Locate Photo Magic Someone Miss Reaching Always Hit Person Trying Whenever Psychologically While Lens Portrait

I started reading and fell in love with the worlds and characters Lev Grossman created. I'm taken with his exploration of an idealized childhood fantasy through the lens of adulthood, or coming into adulthood. Hale Appleman

Love Reading Worlds Characters Through Adulthood Taken Idealized Fell Coming His Childhood Fantasy Lens Created Exploration Started Started Reading

Being behind the lens gives me a completely different perspective, and because of my blog, I get to do projects and attend shows lending me another angle. Hanneli Mustaparta

Me Perspective Projects Angle Gives Attend Another Because Blog Get Behind Being Different Lending Lens Different Perspective Shows

Rockefeller viewed his philanthropy through the lens of his business, and it really mirrored the Industrial Revolution. It was highly centralized, it was top down, it was based on experts, and it was big-picture. Jacqueline Novogratz

Business Revolution Down Philanthropy Top Through Highly Industrial Industrial Revolution Rockefeller His Experts Centralized Lens Really Viewed Based

If I have to point to something specific with the way I move my camera, I love to do it with a wide lens. I like to show you as much of the space as I can, even if I'm following a character. James Wan

Love Character You Space Way Following Something Point Like Camera Move Lens Much Show Even Specific Wide

Senator Blunt genuinely sees everything through the lens of partisan politics. Jason Kander

Politics Everything Sees Through Partisan Partisan Politics Genuinely Senator Blunt Lens

Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission. Jeb Bush

Education Best Needs Learning Result School Public Education Will College Odds Increase Meets Our Must Parochial Environment Attending Mission Knowing His Providing Child Send Public Lens Low-Income Then Should Viewed Each Her

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