I also photographed Maggie Cheung - but these didn't develop into a friendship either. — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
I don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better. — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
The camera is as much a part of my everyday life as talking or eating or sex. — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how… — 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… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures. — 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 only time I went out was to go to bars at night and all the pictures were taken with a flash… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
There are days when everyone in the world looks like a Diane Arbus to me. She's a genius but her work is… — 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
There are ways of angling the camera. I don't just use a tripod. The only time I did that was in '88… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
I've become really interested in the landscape but not as landscape but more as it relates to mood and how we live… — 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
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 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
The complete disregard for the camera's presence indicates its complete saturation in their lives. The subject neither notices nor seems to care… — 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 always thought if I photographed anyone or anything enough, I would never lose the person, I would never lose the memory,… — 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 knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I… — 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
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
![“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)
![“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)