今天刚听了Rineke Dijkstra的讲座回来，很兴奋。

她说道，她相信如果一个人足够专心，足够对各种发生的事保持敞开的态度，就会有奇迹发生。她从来不知道她的模特如何POSE，所有的都是自然而来的，你是无法去摆出来的。她关注的是人的状态，放下戒备的状态，或者是处于人生某种变化的阶段，或者是个人的变化，个人的特点。

个人的想法不必要复杂，只需要专注并且有RIGHT FEEL。

似乎所有的一流艺术家都不是为了满足自己的癖好，而是为了一个更加广泛的主题而创作的，这样的作品也往往更具普遍意义。

其实你永远不可能从一个人那里学到所有的东西，你要不停的从各个方面吸取知识，然后神奇的，你会发觉它们会变成一个系统。我甚至可以把从商业图片库摄影师身上学到的东西和她联系起来，或者是初级的电影课联系起来。所有的东西也都会自然而然的连续起来。

所以说，做艺术家也是一种命中注定的事。

另外想到的一件事是，我看西方人肖像的时候感觉肯定是和他们不一样的，他们在我眼里全是芭比啊！

I’m just back from Rineke Dijkstra’s lecture, very excited.

She believed if one is concerntrated enough, keep an open mind to everything that is going to happen, some miracle will happen. She never directs model how to pose, everything comes naturally. You can’t make the pose. She’s interested in people’s states of mind. When someone is unalert, or in the middle of a great change, people’s own uniqueness.

You don’t need to have a complicated mind, you just need to concerntrate & have the right feeling.

It seems to me now, all the best artists are not working to satisfy their own hobblies, they all work on a broader themes. These works will be more popular & meaningful.

& I think you can never learn everything from one person, you need to learn things from everything everyone around you. They will come together & form your system.

So in another sense, somebody is bound to be an artist.

The other thing that struck my mind is that I must feel differently when I see portraits of westerners as they see them. Coz they all look like barbie dolls to me.