Quote

It's a hideous feeling to go round shopping and even feel like you are a freak.

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
Feels
Hideous
Even
Freak
Like
Shopping
Round
Rounds
Feeling
Feelings
Feel

More quotes by Nan Goldin

Image
I don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.
Nan Goldin
Image
I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.
Nan Goldin
Image
I don't think of Maria Schneider like idol anymore, because I worshipped her when I was young.
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 never thought heroin was very chic.
Nan Goldin
Image
I have very healthy strong relationships with women.
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
I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.
Nan Goldin
Image
I also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped.
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
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
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 things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.
Nan Goldin
Image
I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.
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 like Stella [McCartney] a lot - she's a very open and warm person. I don't particularly want to know about her background.
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 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 influenced by ]the work of early [Michelangelo] Antonioni, Orson Welles and [Carlo] Pasolini, I love [Nicolas Jack] Roeg's film Performance.
Nan Goldin