Goldin Quotes

#1. [of Nan Goldin] In an afterword to Ballad written in 2012, she declared: 'I decided as a young girl I was going to leave a record of my life and experience that no one could rewrite or deny.

Olivia Laing

#2. Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be beneficiaries of reform.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#3. People often focus on the downsides of population growth but neglect the upsides. These upsides may even outweigh the downsides, making a larger population a good thing overall.

Ian Goldin

#4. A song unheard is a song undiscovered.

Lisa Goldin

#5. I think the wrong things are kept private

Nan Goldin

#6. There are no practical alternatives to air transportation.

Daniel Goldin

#7. Things are only hopeless when you lose all hope.

Stephen Goldin

#8. Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.

Ian Goldin

#9. I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends.

Nan Goldin

#10. We want to build colonies on the Moon, Mars, the Moons of other planets, and even nearby asteroids. We want to make space tourism and commerce routine.

Daniel Goldin

#11. 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.

Nan Goldin

#12. I love you, Josie, and I am devoted to making your life full of happiness and accomplishments, ensuring that you thrive to your fullest potential and that while you reach for the sky, you remain grounded by the love of our family and our home.

Kristen Proby

#13. I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I wanted to make a record of real life. That included having a camera with me at all times.

Nan Goldin

#14. I always thought if I photographed anyone or anything enough, I would never lose the person, I would never lose the memory, I would never lose the place. But the pictures show me how much I've lost.

Nan Goldin

#15. In many cases, water stress is more about politics, economics, behaviour and governance than absolute water scarcity. Better planning is needed, to allocate water where societal need is greatest, and to allow trade-offs between alternative uses.

Ian Goldin

#16. We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.

Ian Goldin

#17. The camera is as much a part of my everyday life as talking or eating or sex.

Nan Goldin

#18. If you don't reach out to me when I am in distress, do you want to celebrate my success?

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Nan Goldin

#20. I find more people want to eat a little less. My generation, we're all watching our figures. They want to go to the bar and eat a few snacks, have a couple of cocktails or glasses of wine, and go home. People don't sit down at the table and have a whole three or four courses.

Todd English

#21. I'm not single, I'm busy. That's my line.

Renee Zellweger

#22. I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.

Nan Goldin

#23. 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.

Nan Goldin

#24. Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and oceans. Our hunger for land crowds out fellow species. Our waste products pollute the waters, warm the atmosphere and acidify the oceans.

Ian Goldin

#25. So with imagination, ingenuity and audacity, explore, discover, change the world. And have fun while you're at it. Always take time out to love and to live. You're going to be busy, but never forget family and friends.

Daniel Goldin

#26. That is definitely the heart and soul of Rise Against - that passion to inspire change for the better.

Joe Principe

#27. If I want to take a picture, I take it no matter what.

Nan Goldin

#28. You must also realize that the stuff of excellence-truth, real scientific truth-can be elusive ... It is too often covered by the heavy fog of fear and hidden by the darkness of your detractors.

Daniel Goldin

#29. I do not apologize for these terms or, more generally, for discussing judicial thinking in a vocabulary alien to most judges and lawyers. Judicial behavior cannot be understood in the vocabulary that judges themselves use, sometimes mischievously. (11)

Richard A. Posner

#30. Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.

Nan Goldin

#31. Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.

Ian Goldin

#32. I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I've lost.

Nan Goldin

#33. The real mark of your character comes from not how you react to your successes, of which I know there will be many. How you react to your failures, of which there will be, if you are bold, a number in your lifetime.

Daniel Goldin

#34. I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.

Ian Goldin

#35. 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.

Nan Goldin

#36. For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress ... I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul.

Nan Goldin