Latest Nan Goldin Quotes from Interviews

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• When I put my big retrospective together in '96 [for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York], I saw that there were all these pictures of people inside looking out. All these pictures of women in water and mirrors. I don't know what it means.

  Nan Goldin

  Art, New York, Mean

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• I'm very much interested in water and women in water. I've been photographing that for years although I didn't really know it at the time.

  Nan Goldin

  Years, Water, Knows

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• I usually work really instinctively and it's afterwards that I think about what it means. I don't know consciously that I have these themes that run through my work.

  Nan Goldin

  Running, Mean, Thinking

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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.

  Nan Goldin

  Taken, Night, Light

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• Usually people just do their own work. But I want to deal with the place and what it means to show in a mental hospital.

  Nan Goldin

  Mean, People, Want

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• I've become really interested in the landscape but not as landscape but more as it relates to mood and how we live and how the outside impacts on the inside. I didn't really look at the outside world during the years I was photographing the Ballad as I was locked inside my house and I lived totally inside.

  Nan Goldin

  Impact, Years, House

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• One of the major things I really want to work on now is female rage because that's not dealt with at all - and I have a lot of it.

  Nan Goldin

  Female, Want, Rage

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• I think it killed my sister as the times she was living in were so conformist. This is a subject I really want to deal with. I want to start making films about female rage.

  Nan Goldin

  Thinking, Female, Want

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• When I started photographing my boyfriend of years ago, Brian, I realised I had no right to photograph other people having sex if I wasn't prepared to take them of myself too

  Nan Goldin

  Sex, Years, People

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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.

  Nan Goldin

  Crazy, Lying, Believe

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• Of course I was wearing make-up, I never went anywhere without red lipstick for 25 years! It was a form of self-preservation for me to continue to wear lipstick even though my face was broken.

  Nan Goldin

  Self, Years, Broken

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• There are ways of angling the camera. I don't just use a tripod. The only time I did that was in '88 when I first came out of detox, I spent every day doing self-portraits to fit back into my own skin. I didn't know what the world looked like - what I looked like - so in order to fit back into myself, I took self-portraits everyday to give myself courage and to fit the pieces back together. I used a tripod then.

  Nan Goldin

  Self, Order, Giving

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• I was recently interviewed for radio in relation to the "Thanksgiving" show [2001] at the Saatchi gallery that I was part of. The interviewer said that people in London were very disturbed that I showed a picture of myself battered ("Nan One Month after Being Battered", 1984) and they thought that I set it up. I was accused of deliberately putting on a wig for that particular picture.

  Nan Goldin

  People, Wigs, Radio

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• The thing that drives me most crazy in the world is not to be believed.

  Nan Goldin

  Crazy, World

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• [I influenced by ]the work of early [Michelangelo] Antonioni, Orson Welles and [Carlo] Pasolini, I love [Nicolas Jack] Roeg's film "Performance".

  Nan Goldin

  Film, Performances

• I love all the Hollywood women. I saw all the films when I was a teenager. Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures".

  Nan Goldin

  Teenager, Hollywood, Saws

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• [John] Cassavetes, "Killing of a Chinese Booker", "Opening Night" are my favourites.

  Nan Goldin

  Night, Chinese, Killing

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• Gena Rowlands is fabulous.

  Nan Goldin

  Fabulous

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• That's where I got the idea to paint the walls of the gallery with varied colours [at the Whitechapel show]. I tried to figure out how all these Renaissance paintings manage to work together.

  Nan Goldin

  Wall, Ideas, Working Together

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• I start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.

  Nan Goldin

  Wall, Film, Paint

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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.

  Nan Goldin

  Art, Children, Catholic

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• No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest.

  Nan Goldin

  Guilt, Priests, Jew

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• I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.

  Nan Goldin

  Eye, Catholic, Guilt

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• I'm very influenced by a lot of things, but my chief influence is my friends and what I see and what I feel and my own experiences and memory.

  Nan Goldin

  Memories, Influence, Chiefs

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• The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.

  Nan Goldin

  Art, Church, Saint

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