I was recently interviewed for radio in relation to the "Thanksgiving" show [2001] at the Saatchi gallery that I was part of. The interviewer said that people in London were very disturbed that I showed a picture of myself battered… — Nan Goldin Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
I'm very much interested in water and women in water. I've been photographing that for years although I didn't really know it at the… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
I think it killed my sister as the times she was living in were so conformist. This is a subject I really want to… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
American magazines are becoming very patriotic beyond belief to the point that I can't live there any more. — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
I'm very flattered when people I respect like my work. It's like a dream of a little kid when somebody I idolised likes my… — Nan Goldin Copy Share 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… — Nan Goldin Copy Share 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… — Nan Goldin Copy Share 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… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
Each time I spend with Stella McCartney, I like her better. So I was excited to be asked by her. — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
A lot of people seem to think that art or photography is about the way things look, or the surface of things. That's not… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
Some people have become [in U.S] a lot more conservative but I can't really speak about that because I wasn't there. I feel compassion… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
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