Aperture Quotes

• You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

  Alan Watts

  Inspirational, Life, Yoga

  Alan Watts (2010). “Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation”, p.90, New World Library

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• When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater.

  Michael Snow

  Lenses, Intensity, Range

  Dennis Reid, Michael Snow, Philip Monk, Louise Dompierre, Art Gallery of Ontario (1994). “Visual art, 1951-1993: exploring plane and contour : the drawing, painting, collage, foldage, photo-work, sculpture and film of Michael Snow from 1951 to 1967”, Knopf Canada

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• Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that is direct and uncompromising.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Photography, Mean, Giving

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• There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.

  Carl Sagan

  Truth, Self, Process

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• Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of olden times, driven off for the bystanders sins, has become a tender thing, a running injury. There, running away is me: hurt it and you are hurting me.

  Edward Hoagland

  Running, Hurt, Animal

  Edward Hoagland (1995). “The Tugman's Passage”

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• Apertures, passages from one world to another. Man's escape hatches.

  P. K. Page

  Freedom, Men, World

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• Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Life, Glimpse, Depth

  "The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857".

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• To get back up to the shining world from there My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel, And Following its path, we took no care To rest, but climbed: he first, then I-so far, through a round aperture I saw appear Some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears, Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars.

  Dante Alighieri

  Beautiful, Stars, Tunnels

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• The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can pass out of eternity into the soul, and through which love can pass from one soul in time to another soul in time.

  Aldous Huxley

  Meditation, Grace, Soul

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• In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening, spreading not his charms but his defences, plotting to disrobe, somewhere along the night-- his body without the aperture of the heart or his heart with a door closed to his body. thus keeping one compartment for refuge, one uninvaded cell.

  Anais Nin

  Heart, Night, Doors

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• There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant helix of aspiring insects a faint and steady rain of the same forms burnt and lifeless.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Rain, Moon, Gone

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.4, Pan Macmillan

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• I've decided that what interests me most is that you can only capture the light at a certain time. But after that, five minutes after that, then it's a different thing. So if you don't have the right aperture, you've missed it. Of course, you can correct it in the lab. But not really.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Light, Different, Labs

  Source: cinemagodardcinema.wordpress.com

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• In 1945 J.A. Ratcliffe ... suggested that I [join his group at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge] to start an investigation of the radio emission from the Sun, which had recently been discovered accidentally with radar equipment. ... [B]oth Ratcliffe and Sir Lawrence Bragg, then Cavendish Professor, gave enormous support and encouragement to me. Bragg's own work on X-ray crystallography involved techniques very similar to those we were developing for "aperture synthesis", and he always showed a delighted interest in the way our work progressed.

  Martin Ryle

  Encouragement, Hard Work, Science

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• The tempest unleashes an alphabetletters fall through the apertures of crazy anglesto spell out the futureuprooting the course of inventionand enslaving the masters

  Nancy Peters

  Crazy, Fall, Tempest

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• Christ is the aperture through which the immensity and magnificence of God can be seen.

  John Bertram Phillips

  Magnificence, Christ, Immensity

  John Bertram Phillips (1964). “Your God is too small”, Scribner Paper Fiction

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• Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Play, May, Fancy

  Oliver Goldsmith (1820). “Letters from a citizen of the world, to his friends in the East”, p.154

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• The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion; they are also apertures whose damp emissions and ammoniac smells testify to the mysterious putrefaction of the body.

  Roger Scruton

  Sex, Smell, Example

  Roger Scruton (2015). “Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation”, p.152, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Filmmaking is challenging for men and women. In both cases, it is incredibly difficult. And gender is neither a guarantee of greater sensitivity, capacity for empathy or aperture.

  Claudia Llosa

  Men, Empathy, Challenges

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If a man has a tent made of linen of which the apertures have all been stopped up, and be it twelve bracchia across (over twenty-five feet) and twelve in depth, he will be able to throw himself down from any height without sustaining injury. [His concept of the parachute.]

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Feet, Twenties

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