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“This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky The hills had new places, and wind wielded Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.”

Has Beens Light Eye Night House Black Darkness Sea Sky Fields Wind Window Mad Rose Woods Hills Wet Orange Lenses Blades All Night Luminous New Places Emeralds Flexing Floundering

Book:The Hawk in the Rain

Source: The Hawk in the Rain

“Now I lay me down to sleep Knowing that your lenses peep Now I eat my daily bread And into the tape spool I'll be fed”

Sleep Knowing Lays Bread Feds Tape Lenses Daily Bread

Author:Andy Partridge

“Most of us hide behind egocentric biases that generate the illusion that we are special. These self-serving protective shields allow us to believe that each of us is above average on any test of self-integrity. Too often we look to the stars through the thick lens of personal invulnerability when we should also look down to the slippery slope beneath our feet.”

“The keyhole is my lens as a writer.”

Lenses Keyholes

Author:Nelson Rodrigues

“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.”

Knows World Humans Art Pleasure Conditions Art Is Mediums Brotherhood Human Condition Lenses Subtlety Fear Of Love Bewilderment Distaste

Author:Alton Tobey

“Hyperrealism is more about objectifying... how an object can be portrayed when it is seen through a camera's lens... all my paintings are about an object being viewed through human eyes.”

Humans Eye Objects Painting Cameras Realism Lenses Human Eyes Objectifying

Author:Liu Dan

“If at times my eyes are lenses through which the brain explores constellations of feeling my ears yielding like swinging doors admit princes to the corridors into the mind, do not envy me. I have a beast on my back.”

Ifs Mind Feelings Eye Brain Doors Ears Envy Beast Lenses Constellations Corridors Envy Me

Author:Gavin Douglas

“I've heard that it's some kind of weird two-lens system where the back camera uses two lenses and it somehow takes it up into DSLR quality imagery.”

Kind Two Use Quality Heard Cameras Lenses Imagery

Author:John Gruber

“Just put on the lens and go.”

Photography Lenses

Author:Miroslav Tichy

“I think it's very disheartening and undermining to focus on nostalgia or youthful sentimentality as the lens through which you view art and culture, because then you feel like everything good already happened. I really just try to be in the present with music and just find the things that are invigorating and make me feel happy to be alive right now.”

Thinking Feels Trying Art Culture Views Focus Alive Happened Right Now Nostalgia Lenses Sentimentality Undermining Invigorating Art And Culture Disheartening Happy To Be Alive

Author:Carrie Brownstein

“We do not see the lens through which we look.”

Looks Lenses Unreasonable

Book:Scientific Papers

Source: Scientific Papers

“Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates.”

People Artist Actors Grows Cutting Theater Lenses Marketplace

Author:Ralph Waite

“The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.”

World Self Lenses

Author:Anais Nin

“Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenboeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they freeze the suppliant; by their fiery zeal they burn the sufferer.”

May Ice Burning Bigotry Apathy Lenses Chill Zeal Freeze Fiery Bigots Sufferers

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“I am always behind the shopper at the grocery store who has stitched her coupons in the lining of her coat and wants to talk about a 'strong' chicken she bought two weeks ago. The register tape also runs out just before her sub-total. In the public restroom, I always stand behind the teen-ager who is changing into her band uniform for a parade and doesn't emerge until she has combed the tassels on her boots, shaved her legs, and recovered her contact lens from the commode.”

Source: I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression

“I think a lot about Big Mind-Small Mind, expansive, wide-lens consciousness and contracted, introverted consciousness. I have moments-we all do-when just being alive is a pleasure and a miracle. They feel like moments when the shutters of the mind are open so I can look out. It also feels as if those same shutters have no hooks to fix them in an open position. One small wind and bang-they slam shut.”

Source: Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness

“If a medium is representational by nature of the realistic image formed by a lens, I see no reason why we should stand on our heads to distort that function. On the contrary, we should take hold of that very quality, make use of it, and explore it to the fullest.”

Ifs Should Reason Use Quality Function Photographer Contrary Mediums Reason Why No Reason Realistic Lenses

Book:Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays

Source: Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays

“Music has always been a location for me to run to, whether it's through someone else's song or my own. I can observe my own planet from this foreign land and things make sense within the telescopic lens of song.”

I Can Running Song My Own Land Planets Make Sense Location Lenses Foreign Lands

Author:Jon Foreman

“One of the secrets of being a great photographic model, as it is for a great film actor, is that you let the camera in. It's an intimacy that the model or actor creates with the lens, that then transmits itself to the viewer.”

Film Actors Secret Models Cameras Intimacy Viewers Lenses Transmit Great Film Film Actors

Author:Mary Harron

“The lens freezes time and space in what may be an optical slavery or, contrarily, the crystallization of meaning. The limits of the lens' vision are esthetically often a virtue.”

May Space Vision Virtue Limits Photography Slavery Time And Space Lenses Freeze Freeze Time

Book:A guide to better photography

Source: A guide to better photography

“The television screen is the lens through which most children learn about violence. Through the magnifying power of this lens, their everyday life becomes suffused by images of shootings, family violence, gang warfare, kidnappings, and everything else that contributes to violence in our society. It shapes their experiences long before they have had the opportunity to consent to such shaping or developed the ability to cope adequately with this knowledge.”

Children Long Opportunity Ability Violence Television Shapes Everyday Screens Shooting Our Society Warfare Consent Everyday Life Lenses Gang Kidnapping Magnifying Family Violence

Author:Sissela Bok

“Real artists find answers. The knowledge of the artisan is within the confines of his skills. For example, I know a lot about lenses, about the editing room. I know what the different buttons on the camera are for. I know more or less how to use a microphone. I know all that, but that's not real knowledge. Real knowledge is knowing how to live, why we live, things like that.”

Knows Different Real Use Artist Answers Rooms Knowing Example Skills Cameras Buttons Editing Lenses Microphones Artisans Real Knowledge Real Artists

Author:Krzysztof Kieslowski

“Behind the lens, I found refuge and freedom, distance and connection, an intoxicating way to tame the huge, chaotic world.”

World Way Found Behinds Huge Photography Connections Distance Refuge Lenses Chaotic

Book:Summer of Storms

Source: Summer of Storms

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

Childhood Your Children Lenses Sibling

Book:Do Not Go Gentle: My Search for Miracles in a Cynical Time

Source: Do Not Go Gentle: My Search for Miracles in a Cynical Time

“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.”

Different Spirit Individual Dull Electricity Lenses

Book:I Married Adventure

Source: I Married Adventure

“But whether you stay or go, the critical decision you can make is to stop letting your partner distort the lens of your life, always forcing his way into the center of the picture. You deserve to have your life be about you; you are worth it.”

Way Life Is Decision Deserve Critical Partners Worth It Lenses Critical Decisions

Book:Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

Source: Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

“Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that it is so; and which effects that for knowledge which the lens effects for the sunbeam, when it condenses its brightness in order to increase its force.”

Writing Order Force Effects Style Reader Perfection Increase Originals Lenses Brightness Good Writing Sunbeams

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.”

People Thinking Lenses

Author:Nikki Sixx

“If you view everything through the lens of fear, then you tend to stay in retreat mode. You can just as easily see a crises or problem as a challenge, an opportunity to prove your mettle, the chance to strengthen and toughen yourself, or a call to collective action. By seeing it as a challenge, you will have converted this negative into a positive purely by a mental process that will result in positive action as well.”

Ifs Wells Problem Action Opportunity Process Challenges Chance Results Views Seeing Prove Negative Crisis Collectives Retreat Lenses Collective Action Mettle

Book:The 50th Law

Source: The 50th Law

“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.”

Natural Behinds Attention Fronts Scene Creating Cameras Pops Glad Lenses Relieved Behind The Scenes

Author:David Lee Roth

“In front of the camera and in front of the lens, there's no lawsuits, there's no agent, and there's most frequently no time limits... There's a longevity that's kind of built into it. I spend most of my time behind the scenes, and when it is time to perform, I'm genuinely delighted to do it.”

Kind Behinds Fronts Scene Limits Built Cameras Agents My Time Longevity Lenses Delighted Behind The Scenes Lawsuit Time Limit

Author:David Lee Roth

“You realize after you travel enough that there's some things that, no matter how good you are at making television, no matter how good your cameras are, how well it's edited, there's no way the lenses could have captured the moment, and there's no way you will ever be able to write about it and do it justice.”

Way Writing Wells Matter Enough Moments Able Realizing Justice Television Cameras Lenses Captured Edited

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“In 1982 I bought the newly released Makina Plaubel 55mm fixed-lens camera. With this shift from 35mm to 6 x 7, I also changed from black and white to color. Later that year, I started my project on New Brighton called The Last Resort. However, the first project I shot in colour was composed of urban scenes from Liverpool. This image was on the second roll of film. It's the first good photo I made in this new chapter of my work.”

Years Firsts Made Lasts Film Black White Changed Color Scene Projects Shots Cameras Fixed Colour Chapters Black And White Urban Lenses Resorts Liverpool Brighton Good Photo

Author:Martin Parr

“Independent documentary isnt beholden to some of the interests that the mainstream media are influenced by. Its a pathway to renegade, independent reporting in an in-depth, investigative fashion, and it can do so with a compassionate lens; it allows people to speak in a way that is more human than the mainstream media approach.”

People Way Humans Speak Interest Can Do Media Fashion Approach Independent Depth Compassionate Mainstream Documentaries Lenses Pathways Mainstream Media Renegades

Author:Josh Fox

“Josh Hanagarne has an astonishing story to tell, and he does so with insight, humor, grace, and wonder. All human beings suffer and struggle. Through the lens of his own miraculous experiences, Mr. Hanagarne illuminates the path to joy and the infinite possibilities of transcendence.”

Humans Doe Stories Joy Suffering Human Beings Wonder Struggle Path Grace Possibility Infinite Insight Lenses Miraculous Transcendence Astonishing Infinite Possibilities Josh

Author:Melanie Rae Thon

“A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.”

Thinking Real Stories Use Understanding Cameras Hunger Visuals Expensive Composition Lenses Telling Stories Camera Lenses

Author:Aaron Huey

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

World Found Knowing Noses Lenses

Author:Vasco Ronchi

“Faith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof.” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and a willingness to act.”

Way Argument Philosophical Proof Willingness Lenses Catechism

Author:Sarah Miles

“A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the costumes and make-up, the actors' reading of a line or emphasis of a word, the choice of lens and the pace of the cutting - these are all part of the translation.”

Way Choices Reading Actors Lines Numbers Cutting Pace Instruction Location Costumes Emphasis Lenses Casting Translations Screenplays Manuals

Author:David Nicholls

“Once I'm performing the show, I think that hour show has a certain intimacy with our audience. And that intimacy is through the lens and the live audience is a witness to that, whereas the audience at home is actually the object of my efforts.”

Thinking Shows Home Certain Hours Effort Audience Objects Witness Intimacy Performing Lenses

Author:Stephen Colbert

“On the 1st of August, 1774, I endeavoured to extract air from mercurius calcinates per se [mercury oxide]; and I presently found that, by means of this lens, air was expelled from it very readily. … I admitted water to it [the extracted air], and found that it was not imbibed by it. But what surprized me more than I can well express, was, that a candle burned in this air with a remarkably vigorous flame… I was utterly at a loss how to account for it.”

Wells Mean I Can Found Water Loss Air Accounts Flames Candle Burned Lenses August Vigorous Mercury

Author:J. B. Priestley

“... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens--if we are unaware that women even have a history--we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.”

Ifs Philosophy Past Accepting History Our Lives Wind Universal Response Males Definitions Myth Bias Our Past Lenses Drifting

Book:Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

Source: Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

“It's great to get insight into the era of 80's rock-n-roll via a treasure trove of photographs skillfully captured in front of Mark Weiss' camera lens. This event is the perfect time capsule for Mark's work finally being released upon the masses in 2012.”

Perfect Rocks Fronts Events Mass Mark Cameras Photograph Insight Treasure Eras Rock N Roll Lenses Captured Camera Lenses Time Capsules

Author:Phil Collen

“[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness.”

“Sometimes I feel ashamed at my lack of interest in all the new techniques of modern filmmaking, but I prefer to work with as little equipment as possible. If I have a good lens and a steady camera, that's all I need.”

Ifs Needs Feels Littles Sometimes Interest Modern Cameras Technique Ashamed Steady Filmmaking Equipment Lenses

Author:Sven Nykvist

“Of course, it may be that the arts of writing and photography are antithetical. The hope and aim of a word-handler is that he maycommunicate a thought or an impression to his reader without the reader's realizing that he has been dragged through a series of hazardous or grotesque syntactical situations. In photography the goal seems to be to prove beyond a doubt that the cameraman, in his great moment of creation, was either hanging by his heels from the rafters or was wedged under the floor with his lens in a knothole.”

“My writing is a lens into the possibilities of the American experience.”

Writing Possibility Lenses

Author:Charles Bartlett Johnson

“Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down, and the animal an ascending plant; the man, a beast extended; and the angel, a developed human soul.”

Men Humans Looks Soul Nature Animal Rocks He Man Angel Down And Plant Beast Vegetables Lenses Human Soul Minerals Swarms Ascending

Author:C. A. Bartol

“Skeptics squat by the road like guardians of truth, letting no one pass who doesn't come up to scratch. They never realize that they can see only what their paradigm tells them to look for. If you judge a person only by how well he plays pool, Mozart won't pass scrutiny, but the fault is in your lens.”

Ifs Wells Looks Persons Play Realizing Judging Faults Come Up Pool Lenses Scratches Guardian Paradigm Skeptic Scrutiny Squat

Book:War of the Worldviews: Where Science and Spirituality Meet -- and Do Not

Source: War of the Worldviews: Where Science and Spirituality Meet -- and Do Not

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

World Love Lenses Visionaries

Author:Bryant H. McGill

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