"Since 1970, I've been using text and ephemera as well as photographs in order to tell stories of one kind or another. There's a thread that runs through all the work that is to do with bearing witness. The photographs are about asking questions, though, not answering them."

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Source : "Jim Goldberg: Open See". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2009.

Jim Goldberg

#Running Quotes #Asking Questions Quotes #Order Quotes

“The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio.”

Source : Douglas Kennedy (2010). “The Pursuit of Happiness: A Novel”, p.580, Simon and Schuster
“Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When I was in the batter's box, I felt sorry for the pitcher.”
“Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such structuring of complex systems into sub-assemblies, there could be no order and stability- except the order of a dead universe filled with a uniformly distributed gas.”
“Bettie Page was number one. I have never known another model who had better knowledge of her body or how to work with it to make it look so good. Her skin was perfect, no blemishes. Perfect nose, beautiful straight teeth, and gleaming, shiny black hair that was always in place, always.”
“Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!”
“I just really enjoy the process of working with other talented, creative people. There's great power in bringing diverse points of view together. It can be incredibly stimulating.”

Source : Source: www.complex.com
“Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably. He felt goose pimples clacking all over him as he gazed down despondently at the grim secret Snowden had spilled all over the messy floor. It was easy to read the message in his entrails. Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all. I'm cold,' Snowden said. 'I'm cold.”

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