Quote

I always thought if I photographed anyone or anything enough, I would never lose the person, I would never lose the memory, I would never lose the place. But the pictures show me how much I've lost.

Nan Goldin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Nan Goldin
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 12
Photographer
Printmaker
Washington
District of Columbia
Nancy Goldin
Nancy Nan Goldin
Persons
Loses
Person
Anyone
Enough
Show
Much
Lost
Photographed
Always
Shows
Pictures
Never
Place
Memory
Would
Thought
Lose
Anything
Memories

More quotes by Nan Goldin

Image
I know somewhat about Kate [Moss who featured in the Vogue spread]. I always thought that Kate's look had come from my old friend Siobhan Liddell and some of her friends because they dressed like that about ten years ago. Unconsciously, and right after that, that whole look sort of came out.
Nan Goldin
Image
It's so rare to see a woman's sexuality, real female sexuality, either in the shows or in the clothes.
Nan Goldin
Image
I'm not ashamed of my body and you know everything in the fashion world, if I was vulnerable to it, could drive me crazy. I think it produces so much self-hatred.
Nan Goldin
Image
I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.
Nan Goldin
Image
The complete disregard for the camera's presence indicates its complete saturation in their lives. The subject neither notices nor seems to care that someone has been invited into their private moment.
Nan Goldin
Image
If I say something honestly, generally, I am being completely honest and don't tell me I am lying. It drives me crazy to be told I set up my pictures. How does it benefit me to lie? I guess they are afraid to believe it and are afraid to look at it.
Nan Goldin
Image
I have no ambivalence about myself wearing make-up or designer clothes but I have an enormous ambivalence about what the fashion world has done to women.
Nan Goldin
Image
I won't show a picture where a person doesn't look beautiful.
Nan Goldin
Image
The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.
Nan Goldin
Image
I love all the Hollywood women. I saw all the films when I was a teenager. Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures.
Nan Goldin
Image
I also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped.
Nan Goldin
Image
I start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.
Nan Goldin
Image
No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest.
Nan Goldin
Image
I like it [Rotterdam] much better than Amsterdam which is too much like a postcard. It's too cute for me. Rotterdam is more real, it's got a stomach.
Nan Goldin
Image
If I do continue to do fashion, I would want to radicalise it.
Nan Goldin
Image
I shot for French and British Vogue. The British Vogue one featured clothes by Chloe and was shot at Highgate and the John Soane Museum. It came out much better in my opinion. I only did one day and was working with my own make-up and hair people and a model who I've known for years.
Nan Goldin
Image
I never thought heroin was very chic.
Nan Goldin
Image
My life is more important. At this point in my life I'm alone. I don't think about it a lot.
Nan Goldin
Image
I've got really prolific since I moved to Paris where I am living permanently, for the rest of my life, until I find another idea. I have really close women friends here: Valerie, Raymonde, not Joana so much, Maria Schneider, who was always a real heroine of mine who and has now become a close friend.
Nan Goldin
Image
Gena Rowlands is fabulous.
Nan Goldin