At the same time as the UK Vogue one, I did a shoot that took about 40 days of friends and people… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
When I started photographing my boyfriend of years ago, Brian, I realised I had no right to photograph other people having sex… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
The idea that a fashion photograph could make you cry doesn't happen. And I'm proud to say that my slideshows can make… — 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… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
My desire is to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them.… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
My work shows the beauty in so many different kinds of people because I never photograph anyone who I don't think is… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
I never courted that but it's nice when it's people you respect and they respect your work. It's thrilling. — 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… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
One of the fashion things I ever did was for Helmut Lang for Visionaire magazine and I used people from all genders.… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
I think it's obscene that many people are starving to death from anorexia. It's been said many times, it's trite. But when… — 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.… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
When I put my big retrospective together in '96 [for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York], I saw that there… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
I was recently interviewed for radio in relation to the "Thanksgiving" show [2001] at the Saatchi gallery that I was part of.… — 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… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
I feel like if I started to use it [camera] that way, it would be like a sin almost. I never show… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
Usually people just do their own work. But I want to deal with the place and what it means to show in… — 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
![“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 for their pain but it distresses me to see them all become more patriotic.” quote by Nan Goldin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4a5/nan-goldin-6289_compassion_some-people-have-become-in-u-s-a-lot-mor_290764.jpg)
![“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…” quote by Nan Goldin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9fd/nan-goldin-6289_age_one-of-the-fashion-things-i-ever-did-was_720390.jpg)
![“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.” quote by Nan Goldin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6e9/nan-goldin-6289_art_when-i-put-my-big-retrospective-together_3126864.jpg)
![“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 One Month after Being Battered", 1984) and they thought that…” quote by Nan Goldin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6d1/nan-goldin-6289_accused_i-was-recently-interviewed-for-radio-in_896865.jpg)
![“I feel like if I started to use it [camera] that way, it would be like a sin almost. I never show people ugly pictures I take of them. I usually destroy them. So even if I like it, and they don't, it doesn't get shown.” quote by Nan Goldin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/72d/nan-goldin-6289_cameras_i-feel-like-if-i-started-to-use-it-camer_2611827.jpg)
