Nan Goldin Quotes
My life is more important. At this point in my life I'm alone. I don't think about it a lot.
Quotes to Explore
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I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.
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I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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Excellence always sells.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.
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I am the worlds laziest writer.
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
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What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.
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It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
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It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.
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I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it.
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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
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Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.
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Because the Spanish eat so crazily late - anybody who's been to Spain has had the experience of sitting down at 9:30 P.M. to find themselves the first customer in the restaurant - they tend to favour an early-evening drink and a nibble to keep them going.
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My life is more important. At this point in my life I'm alone. I don't think about it a lot.
