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
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
My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my… — 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
My work has been about making a record of my life that no one can revise. I photograph myself in times of… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
I never, never photograph someone getting high to sell clothes. I was called, at some point, the person responsible for "heroin chic".… — 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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