Nan Goldin Quotes
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Plastic surgery is distressingly popular and I feel that the fashion industry has killed tens of thousands of women over the years from anorexia.
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My life there[in New York] was almost entirely about gay men for 30 years.
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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.
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My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.
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I wasn't there [in U.S] when the city was bombed but it seems to have changed my friends.
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My desire is to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back.
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I also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped.
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One of the things I love so much about Valerie [Belin] is that she inhabits her body so completely. She has no self-consciousness about having stretch marks or having given birth. It's just so amazing that she has nothing to hide. Whereas all these other women see every little - supposed - imperfection - anything irregular is seen as an imperfection.
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I have no ambivalence about myself wearing make-up or designer clothes but I have an enormous ambivalence about what the fashion world has done to women.
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I've got really prolific since I moved to Paris where I am living permanently, for the rest of my life, until I find another idea. I have really close women friends here: Valerie, Raymonde, not Joana so much, Maria Schneider, who was always a real heroine of mine who and has now become a close friend.
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I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends.
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I also photographed Maggie Cheung - but these didn't develop into a friendship either.
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If I want to take a picture, I take it no matter what.
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I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.
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The complete disregard for the camera's presence indicates its complete saturation in their lives. The subject neither notices nor seems to care that someone has been invited into their private moment.
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Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.
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In a way, it [my style] is an homage. But I didn't really know about it at first. But then when I started living in Berlin in the early '90s, I started getting ID and Dazed and Confused. I was shocked how close things were to my work.
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The camera is as much a part of my everyday life as talking or eating or sex.
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The only time I went out was to go to bars at night and all the pictures were taken with a flash because there was no light at all. However now I'm very interested in light.
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It's so rare to see a woman's sexuality, real female sexuality, either in the shows or in the clothes.
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I never thought heroin was very chic.
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In America, more than half the population are overweight. It's not healthy and I'm not proud of that but I don't hate having a woman's body.
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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.
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It's a hideous feeling to go round shopping and even feel like you are a freak.