Nan Goldin Quotes
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If I want to take a picture, I take it no matter what.
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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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[I want to] refuting the whole idea that there is only one way to look; that women have to be so skinny to look good; that they have to be 12 years old and wearing clothes that only women in their 30s and 40s can afford.
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My life there[in New York] was almost entirely about gay men for 30 years.
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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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Each time I spend with Stella McCartney, I like her better. So I was excited to be asked by her.
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In Paris now, when I walk into stores and the shopgirls literally say to me every time, "We don't have anything in your size".
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I also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped.
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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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I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.
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It's a hideous feeling to go round shopping and even feel like you are a freak.
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No place could be less sympathetic to my politics than America.
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My work is received more intelligently in Europe.
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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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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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Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.
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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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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 at Renaissance art all the time.
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No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest.
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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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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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I start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.
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I like Stella [McCartney] a lot - she's a very open and warm person. I don't particularly want to know about her background.