Quote

I also photographed Maggie Cheung - but these didn't develop into a friendship either.

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
Develop
Friendship
Either
Didn
Also
Maggie
Photographed

More quotes by 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 love all the Hollywood women. I saw all the films when I was a teenager. Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures.
Nan Goldin
Image
I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.
Nan Goldin
Image
The main thing that I want to say is that I don't think women are at their most beautiful in their adolescence or in their early 20s.
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 don't think of Maria Schneider like idol anymore, because I worshipped her when I was young.
Nan Goldin
Image
The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.
Nan Goldin
Image
The thing that drives me most crazy in the world is not to be believed.
Nan Goldin
Image
It's a hideous feeling to go round shopping and even feel like you are a freak.
Nan Goldin
Image
Usually people just do their own work. But I want to deal with the place and what it means to show in a mental hospital.
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 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
When I put my big retrospective together in '96 [for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York], I saw that there were all these pictures of people inside looking out. All these pictures of women in water and mirrors. I don't know what it means.
Nan Goldin
Image
Stella McCartney is [my] big fan.
Nan Goldin
Image
I also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped.
Nan Goldin
Image
I won't show a picture where a person doesn't look beautiful.
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
I've become really interested in the landscape but not as landscape but more as it relates to mood and how we live and how the outside impacts on the inside. I didn't really look at the outside world during the years I was photographing the Ballad as I was locked inside my house and I lived totally inside.
Nan Goldin
Image
In Paris now, when I walk into stores and the shopgirls literally say to me every time, We don't have anything in your size.
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