Nan Goldin Quotes
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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 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 wasn't there [in U.S] when the city was bombed but it seems to have changed my friends.
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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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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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In America, more than half the population are overweight. It's not healthy and I'm not proud of that but I don't hate having a woman's body.
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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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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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My work is received more intelligently in Europe.
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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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No place could be less sympathetic to my politics than America.
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I also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped.
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I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.
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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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Plastic surgery is distressingly popular and I feel that the fashion industry has killed tens of thousands of women over the years from anorexia.
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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.
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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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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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It's so rare to see a woman's sexuality, real female sexuality, either in the shows or in the clothes.
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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.
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I've been alone for about eight years and it doesn't bother me.
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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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I start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.