Rineke Dijkstra Quotes

#1. Read non-interesting books!

Enock Maregesi

#2. I felt that the beach portraits were all self-portraits. That moment of unease, that attempt to find a pose, it was all about me.

Rineke Dijkstra

#3. With young people everything is much more on the surface - all the emotions; when you get older you know how to hide things.

Rineke Dijkstra

#4. And how did your day go?" I asked Ascanio.
He turned to me, a dreamy look on his pretty face. "We killed things. There was blood. Fountains of blood. And then we had barbecue.

Ilona Andrews

#5. I don't need to know anything about the people I photograph, but it's important that I recognize something about myself in them.

Rineke Dijkstra

#6. Every meaning is a projection of the viewer's inarticulate moods.

James Elkins

#7. You could be great, you know, it's all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that.

J.K. Rowling

#8. I do think that my work has gotten calmer, and that the violence of some of the earlier series was necessary to reach the higher degree of concentration in the later ones.

Rineke Dijkstra

#9. A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second.

Rineke Dijkstra

#10. In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.

Marcel Proust

#11. I am interested in the paradox between identity and uniformity, in the power and vulnerability of each individual and each group. It is in this paradox that I try to visualize by concentrating on poses, attitudes, gestures, and gazes.

Rineke Dijkstra

#12. Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its products.

Richard Neal

#13. As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.

Rineke Dijkstra

#14. For me, the importance of photography is that you can point to something, that you can let other people see things. Ultimately, it is a matter of the specialness of the ordinary.

Rineke Dijkstra

#15. I believe the measure of a man isn't just the road he's traveled; it's the choices he's made along the way.

Joe Biden