One of the fashion things I ever did was for Helmut Lang for Visionaire magazine and I used people from all genders. People from the age of 18 - like James King - to people like my friend Sharon [Stone] who's about 50 or older. People of all different shapes and literally all different genders and my boyfriend at the… — Nan Goldin Copy Share
I'm very influenced by a lot of things, but my chief influence is my friends and what I see and what I… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends. — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
I wasn't there [in U.S] when the city was bombed but it seems to have changed my friends. — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
Yes, I need to be fed but the need to be loved by friends has been as important to me than any… — 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 at Renaissance art all the time. — Nan Goldin Copy Share
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 what it's about for me. It's really about relationships and feelings...it's really hard for me to do commercial work because people kind of want me to do a Nan Goldin. They don't understand that it's not… — Nan Goldin Copy Share
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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