1. Life’s the picture. But all good photographers know you gotta have the right lens.-Lamar Giles
2. Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.-Yousuf Karsh
3. 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.-Berenice Abbott
4. The lens we choose transforms the way we look at things.-Dewitt Jones
5. My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can’t come in closer with the 35 mm.-Annie Leibovitz
6. I think the 50mm lens is an extremely good discipline lens; it requires you to see in a more refined way, not just tighter.-William Albert Allard
7. A powerful hand lens [Eschenback Leutchlupe] with a focused beam of light opens up an entire world below the threshold of the ordinary experience of seeing.-Allen Lacy
8. It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.-Carine Roitfeld
9. No lens is quick enough to track the movement of the human body. The molecules are always moving.-Roger Rees
10. If you know the shape of the lens and the image you get, you can work out the path that light followed between the object and your eye.-Priyamvada Natarajan
11. You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.-David Bailey