Jim Goldberg Quotes

#1. 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.

Jim Goldberg

#2. This is by far the most serious crisis civilisation has ever faced.

Al Gore

#3. Before I even took pictures I knew that I wanted to have them as hard copy memories.

Jim Goldberg

#4. I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.

Jim Goldberg

#5. My only agenda is to bring attention to otherwise ignored and shunned lives.

Jim Goldberg

#6. 'Anna Karenina.' I read it in college. I was so engrossed that I couldn't stop reading it and neglected all my other studies. I would go to the library even on nice warm weekends and just lock myself up. I think that was the first time that I felt transformed by a book.

Jonathan Dee

#7. I mean, they say they've gotta change the street kids' lives. Well, that's true. But you can't take somebody from point A to point Z overnight. You can't make me a fucking suburban teenager now, after what's gone down. It'll never happen.

Jim Goldberg

#8. Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.

Barton Gellman

#9. There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.

Tony Blair

#10. Dave: 'Will you ever be happy Echo?'
Echo: 'I don't know I haven't tried it yet.'
Dave: 'Let's give it a shot together.'
Echo: 'Let's spread fire instead.

Jim Goldberg

#11. Quit looking for an answer, Jim. There fuckin' ain't one. Fuck yeah, I'm still looking for God's telephone number.

Jim Goldberg

#12. I use my intuition. I tell my students: use your brains, but also use another part of yourself.

Jim Goldberg

#13. A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they do, whereby his superiority may be apparent.

Saint Bernard

#14. When I encountered "The Lady of Shallot" (to take a "for instance" allusion from the many in the book, this one from the "Etiology" section) it was still considered a "great poem." What does that poem - or rather a particular presentation of that poem (hey, admire this!) - do to a young woman?

Laura Mullen

#15. [A photograph] is a part of the evidence. I'm not saying it's the truth - it's part of the evidence.

Jim Goldberg

#16. I'm not a politically radical person. In fact, I'm much more interested in being radical aesthetically.

Jim Goldberg

#17. Everyone wants to be a dyke now; everyone craves our freedom, guts, and knowing looks.

Susie Bright

#18. It's always good to find things that you haven't found before.

Jim Goldberg

#19. I show Dave the dummy for my book. He reads every bit of writing, looks at every picture, and asks no questions. When he's done, he wipes his hands on the book.

Jim Goldberg

#20. All my knowledge comes from research.

Stan Sakai

#21. Global poverty is an input on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor.

Michel Chossudovsky

#22. Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.

Jim Goldberg

#23. There are many images which I miss on purpose. I've done too many of them before and photographing them again doesn't change the world, or me.

Jim Goldberg

#24. What would we be without the fans? They're more important than me, because they make our sport great; they make things happen. We put on the show, but if people don't react to it, we are nothing. So, the fans, basically we should roll out the red carpet for them.

Jens Voigt

#25. Jim Cummings, Whoopie Goldberg & Cheech Marin make up this famous Disney threesome.

Alex Trebek

#26. I was so used to pretending to be something I wasn't, it shocked me to be seen for what I was.

Kim Van Alkemade

#27. The photograph is kind of a proof - a proof that I actually met these people, that they actually have lives, and that they're worth considering.

Jim Goldberg