Nan Goldin Quotes
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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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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 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.
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My life there[in New York] was almost entirely about gay men for 30 years.
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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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It's a hideous feeling to go round shopping and even feel like you are a freak.
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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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Each time I spend with Stella McCartney, I like her better. So I was excited to be asked by her.
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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.
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I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.
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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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One of my assistants, a British man, says I should find a platform for [cosmetic industry]. Meanwhile I wear make-up.
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I also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped.
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My work is received more intelligently in Europe.
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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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Stella McCartney is [my] big fan.
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I don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.
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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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No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest.
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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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I've been alone for about eight years and it doesn't bother me.
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Now what I like is that other artists know my work and are interested in me or want to collaborate.
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No place could be less sympathetic to my politics than America.
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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.