Nan Goldin Quotes
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The camera is as much a part of my everyday life as talking or eating or sex.
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My work shows the beauty in so many different kinds of people because I never photograph anyone who I don't think is beautiful. I never take an intentionally mean picture.
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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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No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest.
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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 the major things I really want to work on now is female rage because that's not dealt with at all - and I have a lot of it.
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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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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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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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When I started photographing my boyfriend of years ago, Brian, I realised I had no right to photograph other people having sex if I wasn't prepared to take them of myself too
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I've been alone for about eight years and it doesn't bother me.
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My work is received more intelligently in Europe.
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I start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.
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I never thought heroin was very chic.
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Actually, I think what is being shown as beauty in fashion magazines right now has become particularly ugly. This kind of straight, blonde very conservative.
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Of course I was wearing make-up, I never went anywhere without red lipstick for 25 years! It was a form of self-preservation for me to continue to wear lipstick even though my face was broken.
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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 very healthy strong relationships with women.
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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 don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.
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I think the wrong things are kept private
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The main thing that I want to say is that I don't think women are at their most beautiful in their adolescence or in their early 20s.
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One of the fashion things I ever did was for Helmut Lang for Visionaire magazine and I used people from all genders. People from the age of 18 - like James King - to people like my friend Sharon [Stone] who's about 50 or older. People of all different shapes and literally all different genders and my boyfriend at the time and his daughter who was 11.
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Stella McCartney is [my] big fan.