Quotes About Camera Obscura

#1. Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#2. Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was present originally.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#3. I'd like my coffin to be a camera obscura so I can see what's going on outside.

Bill Jay

#4. If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process.

Friedrich Engels

#5. Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.

Pat Conroy

#6. During photography's first decades, exposure times were quite long ... So, similar to the drawings produced with the help of a camera obscura, which depicted reality as static and immobile, early photographs represented the world as stable, eternal, unshakable.

Lev Manovich

#7. Banking is a branch of the information business.

Walter Wriston

#8. That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me.

Dakota Fanning

#9. A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.

Elizabeth Blackwell

#10. I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.

D.J. MacHale

#11. A man like me troubles himself little about a million men.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#12. Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?

Laini Taylor

#13. All of the awards, applause, Twitter followers, shoes, it will all go away eventually. But if I can leave the world slightly more hopeful, inspired, and more healed than when I arrived, I did my job.

Debby Ryan

#14. Working as a showrunner has made it tougher to watch other shows and movies.

Shawn Ryan

#15. You know, I can't remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.

Barbra Streisand

#16. If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#17. You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#18. Keeping Crooked Hillary Clinton out of the White House!

Donald Trump

#19. But there is every reason to think that the bulging cortex which would later measure stars and ice ages was still a dim, impoverished region in a skull box whose capacity was no greater than that of great apes.

Loren Eiseley