Rineke Dijkstra famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Attitude #Trying #Identity
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

#Photography #People #Ordinary
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

#People #Emotion #Aging
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

#People #Important #Needs
A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second.
-- Rineke Dijkstra

#Lying #Matter #Kind
For me it is essential to understand that everyone is alone. Not in the sense of loneliness, but rather in the sense that no one can completely understand someone else. I know very well what Diane Arbus means when she says that one cannot crawl into someone else's skin, but there is always an urge to do so anyway. I want to awaken definite sympathies for the person I have photographed.
-- Rineke Dijkstra

#Loneliness #Mean #Skins
As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.
-- Rineke Dijkstra

#Reality #Photographer #Moments
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

#Beach #Self #Portraits
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

#Thinking #Degrees #Violence

Approach or come: refers not to the physical act of coming, but to the mental attitude; the heart is mentioned for sincerity. When they sincerely promise not to fight against you, do not pursue them. Remember that if they had fought against you, your difficulties would have been increased. Their neutrality itself may be a great advantage to you. So long as you are satisfied that they are sincere and their acts support their declarations of peace with you, you should not consider yourself justified in pursuing them and warring against them.
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
In nearly all the matters in which the Pan-German movement was wanting, the attitude of the Christian Social Party was correct and well-planned.
Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.
I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.
A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.
My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.
A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.
It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation.
The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'

Rineke Dijkstra famous quotes

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