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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My life there[in New York] was almost entirely about gay men for 30 years.
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I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends.
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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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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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Each time I spend with Stella McCartney, I like her better. So I was excited to be asked by her.
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If I want to take a picture, I take it no matter what.
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No place could be less sympathetic to my politics than America.
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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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I also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped.
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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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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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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 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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It's a hideous feeling to go round shopping and even feel like you are a freak.
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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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I like Stella [McCartney] a lot - she's a very open and warm person. I don't particularly want to know about her background.
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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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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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I start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.
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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'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.