Nan Goldin Quotes

I like Stella [McCartney] a lot - she's a very open and warm person. I don't particularly want to know about her background.

She has that kind of baby face, a very young face. So I was interested in working with Kate [Moss].

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.

I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.

It's a hideous feeling to go round shopping and even feel like you are a freak.

I won't show a picture where a person doesn't look beautiful.

I'm not ashamed of my body and you know everything in the fashion world, if I was vulnerable to it, could drive me crazy. I think it produces so much self-hatred.

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.

Now what I like is that other artists know my work and are interested in me or want to collaborate.

Actually, I think what is being shown as beauty in fashion magazines right now has become particularly ugly. This kind of straight, blonde very conservative.

If I do continue to do fashion, I would want to radicalise it.

I also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped.

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

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

Gena Rowlands is fabulous.

Stella McCartney is [my] big fan.

My work is received more intelligently in Europe.

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.

I also photographed Maggie Cheung - but these didn't develop into a friendship either.

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.