Quote

I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I wanted to make a record of real life. That included having a camera with me at all times.

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
Knew
Age
Included
Times
Camera
Wanted
Cameras
Nothing
Record
Real
Saws
Make
Early
Life
Records

More quotes by 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 don't think of Maria Schneider like idol anymore, because I worshipped her when I was young.
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
I also photographed Maggie Cheung - but these didn't develop into a friendship either.
Nan Goldin
Image
I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.
Nan Goldin
Image
I have very healthy strong relationships with women.
Nan Goldin
Image
The only time I went out was to go to bars at night and all the pictures were taken with a flash because there was no light at all. However now I'm very interested in light.
Nan Goldin
Image
I never thought heroin was very chic.
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 influenced by ]the work of early [Michelangelo] Antonioni, Orson Welles and [Carlo] Pasolini, I love [Nicolas Jack] Roeg's film Performance.
Nan Goldin
Image
I also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped.
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
As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art. I look at Renaissance art all the time.
Nan Goldin
Image
The thing that drives me most crazy in the world is not to be believed.
Nan Goldin
Image
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
Image
I had said that when the first Bush got elected that I would leave the country. And when the second Bush wasn't even elected properly.
Nan Goldin
Image
That's where I got the idea to paint the walls of the gallery with varied colours [at the Whitechapel show]. I tried to figure out how all these Renaissance paintings manage to work together.
Nan Goldin
Image
One of my assistants, a British man, says I should find a platform for [cosmetic industry]. Meanwhile I wear make-up.
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 won't show a picture where a person doesn't look beautiful.
Nan Goldin