Nan Goldin Quotes

I don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.

Nan Goldin

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• I never read about photography.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Never
  • Photography
  • Read

• There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Question
  • Photography
  • Environmental

• In the history of photography, we have many masterpieces in terms of black and white books. You have Bresson's 'Decisive Moment,' Frank's 'The Americans'... many masterpieces. But there is nothing to this caliber in color. Well, I think I'll waltz with my muse and hope that I might be able to produce something on this order in color.

  

  Ralph Gibson
  • History
  • Hope
  • Black

• I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Like
  • Painting
  • Photography

• I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
  • Love
  • Joy

• Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways.

  

  Major Owens
  • Up
  • Internet
  • Information

• My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Photography
  • Architecture

• I chose photography over writing. I had to make a living.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Writing
  • Photography
  • Living

• In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little sculptures, play video games.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Time
  • Play
  • Photography

• Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Change
  • Photography
  • Finding

• The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the feedback loop which actively shapes the content we are fed.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • People
  • Age
  • Photography

• I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.

  

  Ori Gersht
  • Information
  • Photography

• As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Picture
  • Moment
  • Photography

• I've been working almost 20 years, and I think I've worked with maybe one black director of photography in that time. Maybe two women directors or DPs. Maybe. And I've done a lot of TV. That's a lot of people I've worked with.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

  

  Edward Steichen
  • Earth
  • Photography

• Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Dance
  • Photography
  • Ballet

• Photography belongs to a fraternity of its own. I was young and enthusiastic and wanted to take good pictures to show the other photographers. That, and the professional pride of convincing an editor that I was the man to go somewhere, were the most important things to me.

  

  Don McCullin
  • Good
  • Important
  • Pride

• I would love to study photography.

  

  Emma Roberts
  • Study
  • Photography

• In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white. Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.

  

  Martin Parr
  • Work
  • Black
  • Serious

• Many priests say that retirement is more identified with freedom from meetings, budgets, personnel conflicts, and "dealing with the Chancery." Even as I struggled not to take that last point too personally, I was reminded that I have heard the same sentiment from many of my bishop friends as well!

  

  Wilton Daniel Gregory
  • Conflict
  • Retirement

• People think there's some real subversive thing playing against whoever it is; a lot of it is just people who want to go along and get along. And they also want to make money. And the bottom line is, they're going to put out as much stuff as they can - stupid, banal stuff that makes money.

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • People
  • Real
  • Money

• The initial attraction of a political convention was that often the outcome was not preordained. There was at least some element of surprise. But, now it's like tuning in to a movie where you already know the plot and the ending. It's just not that interesting.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Movie
  • Political
  • Interesting

• Novelist and poet David Huddle is a quiet but fabulous writer, and he does adolescent longing better than anyone I know.

  

  Rebecca Makkai
  • Longing
  • Fabulous
  • Novelist

• I don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.

  

  Nan Goldin
  • Photography
  • Can Do Something
  • Something Better