Rineke Quotes & Sayings

The world is complex, and we capture it with different languages, each appropriate to the process that we are describing. — Carlo Rovelli

Do not try to reach the masses! If you say something good and right, masses will reach you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The acting thing is the side benefit of becoming a little bit well known with my music. — Tyler Hilton

Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women. — Adam Levine

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

Sometimes when the heart breaks, it doesn't know what it wants and it doesn't recognize the difference between the truth and a lie. — C.C. Hunter

As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality. — Rineke Dijkstra

Remember, action today can prevent a crisis tomorrow. — Steve Shallenberger

We live in a society where the "nothing" (shopping, watching TV) has become a "something" and the "something" (relaxing, meditating, sharing) has become a void in need of being filled. — Noam Chomsky

You know those days when you think you have to have a plate of pasta right now? When I'm trying to be good, I take a minute to ask myself, 'Do you really need to eat all this crazy stuff? It will still be around if you want it later.' — Ciara

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

Jealousy blurs the focus. — Toba Beta

As an actor, you really want to resonate with your audience. I played a character on Oz and people still approach me in the streets today. — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

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

A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second. — Rineke Dijkstra

In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a war story nothing is ever absolutely true. — Tim O'Brien

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

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

Go let thy less than woman's hand Assume the distaff not the brand. — Lord Byron

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

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

(E)very version of time is real, but none of them is complete. — Deepak Chopra

The day waned, and dusk was twined about the boles of the trees. At last the hobbits saw, rising dimly before them, a steep dark land: they had come to the feet of the mountains, and to the green roots of tall Methedras. Down the hillside the young Entwash, leaping from its springs high above, ran noisily from step to step to meet them. On the right of the stream there was a long slope, clad with grass, now grey in the twilight. No trees grew there and it was open to the sky; stars were shining already in lakes between shores of cloud. — J.R.R. Tolkien