Quote

If I do continue to do fashion, I would want to radicalise it.

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
Would
Continue
Fashion

More quotes by Nan Goldin

Image
The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.
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 did [heroin] maybe when I was 18 but I got over that pretty quickly.
Nan Goldin
Image
[I want to] refuting the whole idea that there is only one way to look that women have to be so skinny to look good that they have to be 12 years old and wearing clothes that only women in their 30s and 40s can afford.
Nan Goldin
Image
Of course I was wearing make-up, I never went anywhere without red lipstick for 25 years! It was a form of self-preservation for me to continue to wear lipstick even though my face was broken.
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
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
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 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 won't show a picture where a person doesn't look beautiful.
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
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
No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest.
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
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
I never thought heroin was very chic.
Nan Goldin
Image
I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.
Nan Goldin
Image
Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.
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