Nan Goldin Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 always thought if I photographed anyone or anything enough, I would never lose the person, I would never lose the memory, I would never lose the place. But the pictures show me how much I've lost.
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I've been alone for about eight years and it doesn't bother me.
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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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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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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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I don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.
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I have very healthy strong relationships with women.
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I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.
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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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I love all the Hollywood women. I saw all the films when I was a teenager. Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures".
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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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The camera is as much a part of my everyday life as talking or eating or sex.