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Quotes About Lens

We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.
~ Madeleine M. Kunin
Cinematography is so much about instinct and intuition - you want the same range of experience going into behind the camera as what you see in front of it. Your life experience will come through the lens.
~ Rachel Morrison
Looking at my life through the lens of history has made me increasingly grateful to standout women who pushed those boundaries to make the changes from which I have benefited.
~ Sara Sheridan
Perception is the lens through which we interpret experiences, and when we change the lens we change how we experience.
~ Aisha Mirza
In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.
~ John Updike
It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens.
~ Sarah Miller
The optimal lens that creates an acceptable amount of distortion is a 50mm lens. This translates into the drawing as a 60º Cone of Vision. How is this determined? Every lens has a degree of visible area assigned to it and 60º is close to what is seen through a 50mm lens.
~ Scott Robertson
The scary becomes the sacred when we're wearing the lens of the gospel.
~ Scotty Smith
He had to say; words were a lens to focus one's mind, and he could not use words for anything else tonight.
~ Ayn Rand
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
~ Ayn Rand
When a regular camera focuses physically, what the regular camera is doing is adjusting the lens relative to the sensor to bring different parts of the scene into focus.
~ Ren Ng
I think a lot of Africans in my generation, and especially those of us who have spent time overseas before coming back, are quite comfortable moving between the two worlds, though always with a lens of, 'What can we do to help our countries or regions?'
~ Ory Okolloh
Feminism is a lens I see the world through and what I believe in. I don't ever use it as a tool of promotion.
~ Petra Collins
For a long time in my adolescence, comedy was the only tool I had for communication and dealing with the world and dealing with people - I didn't know any other lens in which to do it.
~ Raphael Bob-Waksberg
It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.
~ Ville Valo
I became particularly interested in how perceptions are formed, how they govern the way we see, and how the way we see governs how we behave. This led me to a study of expectancy theory and self-fulfilling prophecies or the "Pygmalion effect," and to a realization of how deeply imbedded our perceptions are. It taught me that we must look at the lens through which we see the world, as well as at the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.
~ Stephen R. Covey
The emergence of social media in the Broadway fan's life - it's sort of a serendipitous thing for us and for a lot of shows. I always wonder what 'Rent' would've felt like through that lens.
~ Christopher Jackson
There was something about Marilyn. She couldn't act her way out of a bag, but she became an icon because something happened between her and the lens, and no one knows what it is.
~ Richard Widmark
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
Wrestling fans are a community unlike most others. I've been a part of this community since I was 7 years old, and I can tell you that wresting fans see the world every day through a special lens.
~ Tony Khan
could feel the torn, knurled rim that had held the small lens of the eyepiece. The
~ Bernard Cornwell
In drama, you're interacting with other actors to tell the story. The camera is like the theater: it's the artistic fourth wall. In a screen play, you don't look at the camera and communicate with it. But with hosting, you're looking right into the lens and talking to the people. It is a different style, and it's fascinating.
~ Peter Graves
Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
~ Salvador Dali
Historical Interpretation: Judgment Under Uncertainty," Amos had called it. With a flick of the wrist, he showed a roomful of professional historians just how much of human experience could be reexamined in a fresh, new way, if seen through the lens he had created with Danny.
~ Michael Lewis