Nan Goldin Quotes

If I say something honestly, generally, I am being completely honest and don't tell me I am lying. It drives me crazy to be told I set up my pictures. How does it benefit me to lie? I guess they are afraid to believe it and are afraid to look at it.

Nan Goldin

Quotes to Explore

I've been a fortunate girl: I grew up in a family that loved me from day one. I feel well grounded and lucky from that. So everything else is a bonus, because I grew up in this family that I adored, and adored me, and I think when you have that, you are already ahead of the game in the sense of how you feel about yourself.

Jaclyn Smith
- Up
- Family
- Game
Military brats have this toughness: they're almost like orphans or foster children; they develop little mechanisms. It sets you up to look at things a little differently.

Padgett Powell
- Up
- Children
- Military
But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.

Jack Dee
- Up
- Important
- Kids
The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.

Randall Terry
- Believe
- Money
- Government
One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville - the early things he used to do for Factory Records.

Raf Simons
- Up
- Work
- Young
I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.

T. J. Miller
- Believe
- Man
- Alcohol