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She has that kind of baby face, a very young face. So I was interested in working with Kate [Moss].
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My life there[in New York] was almost entirely about gay men for 30 years.
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My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.
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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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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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Each time I spend with Stella McCartney, I like her better. So I was excited to be asked by her.
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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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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 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 don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.
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I also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped.
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Some people have become [in U.S] a lot more conservative but I can't really speak about that because I wasn't there. I feel compassion for their pain but it distresses me to see them all become more patriotic.
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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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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 never courted that but it's nice when it's people you respect and they respect your work. It's thrilling.
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I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.
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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'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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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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Stella McCartney is [my] big fan.
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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.
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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.
Nan Goldin