Rineke Quotes

#1. Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

John Selden

#2. 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

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

Rineke Dijkstra

#4. Sometimes the small dreams were all a person needed to live.

Amy Lane

#5. 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

#6. Everyday decision-making around the world is constantly based on what came before us.

Steve Berry

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

Rineke Dijkstra

#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. I had to get a second passport in a hurry.

Andrew Young

#10. Digital-Original just shifts the R&D costs for publishing to the authors and affords us the chance to write the stories we want to write and the stories our patrons want to read.

Michael A. Stackpole

#11. Slope, but still I felt nervous. As I gathered up my maps and turned to go, I hesitated and asked the ranger, "Am I going to make it?" He

Meg Jay

#12. Everything was ephemeral, yet everything was eternal,

Kate Atkinson

#13. 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

#14. To write well it is first necessary to have something to say.

Stephen Leacock

#15. Trevor, let's go upstairs and take a really hot bath with extra bubbles so that my skin gets all sudsy and slippery so you can run your incredibly gifted naughty hands over me while we see how many times you can make me come before the water gets cold

R.L. Mathewson

#16. Drama doesn't just walk into your life. Either you create it, invite it or associate with it.

Brooke Hampton

#17. 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

#18. 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