Carine Roitfeld Quotes

“It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.”

“Only when we accept the fact that the world is never exactly as we see it through our individual lens of perception will we be able to accept ourselves or the mystery that is life itself.”

“We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.”

“Too often, opinion is a lens polished by the grit of bias. And as I stare through my own lens, I might ask how much polish can the grit of bias actually create?”

“Food is a lens for culture.”

“You are not the oil, you are not the air—merely the point of combustion, the flash-point where the light is born. You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency—your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end and remain purely as a means.”

“Perception is the lens through which we interpret experiences,and when we change the lens we change how we experience.”

“My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.”

“Photography is not a lens but eye, not a business but art”

“I've been lucky to travel and work all over the world through the lens of the back of the house, and I love that monocle. I love that lens, because it's real people.”