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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If I want to take a picture, I take it no matter what.
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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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My life there[in New York] was almost entirely about gay men for 30 years.
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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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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 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 place could be less sympathetic to my politics than America.
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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.
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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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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 remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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I've got really prolific since I moved to Paris where I am living permanently, for the rest of my life, until I find another idea. I have really close women friends here: Valerie, Raymonde, not Joana so much, Maria Schneider, who was always a real heroine of mine who and has now become a close friend.
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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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No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest.
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I start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.
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In a way, it [my style] is an homage. But I didn't really know about it at first. But then when I started living in Berlin in the early '90s, I started getting ID and Dazed and Confused. I was shocked how close things were to my work.