Nan 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. 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

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

Nan Goldin

#4. When people recognise me they just kind of go 'Hi how are you,' really kind of cool you know.

Rachel Stevens

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

Nan Goldin

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Make the Universal personal and you become richer, wiser and stronger. Make the personal Universal and you will find freedom, compassion and love

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

Nan Goldin

#10. Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.

Samuel Richardson

#11. Forgiving yourself can prove as difficult as licking a scab off your elbow.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#12. Most novels, if they are successful at all, are original in the sense that they report the existence of an area of society, a type of person, not yet admitted to the general literate consciousness.

Doris Lessing

#13. I think the wrong things are kept private

Nan Goldin

#14. One of the litmus tests for judicial conservatism is the idea of judicial restraint - that courts should give substantial deference to the decisions of the political process. When Congress and the president enact a law, conservatives generally say, judges should avoid 'legislating from the bench.'

Jeff Greenfield

#15. I steered my lips across his jawline and to his mouth. I kissed him. These were open-mouth kisses, young people's kisses, hungry and full at the same time, in love, at home.

Augusten Burroughs

#16. Like your booty don't stink.

LL Cool J

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. I've never felt completely satisfied with what I've done. I tend to see things too critically. I'm trying to get over that.

Kevin Kline

#21. Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive, you have to watch out for.

Grace Metalious

#22. Put simply, 'Interstellar' has a strong undercurrent of cheesiness.

Annalee Newitz

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

Nan Goldin

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

Nan Goldin

#25. I always thought I was going to be on the other side of the camera. That's where I found myself. I found out that I could write when I was 17, right before you go to college, so it was a passion of mine.

O'Shea Jackson Jr.

#26. 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

#27. When each day is the same as the nest it's because people fail to reconize the good things that happen in thier lives everyday the sunrises,

Paulo Coelho

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

Nan Goldin