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Nan Goldin Inspirational Quotes (50)

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I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.
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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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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 also photographed Maggie Cheung - but these didn't develop into a friendship either.
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I like it [Rotterdam] much better than Amsterdam which is too much like a postcard. It's too cute for me. Rotterdam is more real, it's got a stomach.
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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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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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I start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.
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I also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped.
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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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It's a hideous feeling to go round shopping and even feel like you are a freak.
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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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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 remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.
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I have very healthy strong relationships with women.
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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 know somewhat about Kate [Moss who featured in the Vogue spread]. I always thought that Kate's look had come from my old friend Siobhan Liddell and some of her friends because they dressed like that about ten years ago. Unconsciously, and right after that, that whole look sort of came out.
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My life is more important. At this point in my life I'm alone. I don't think about it a lot.
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I shot for French and British Vogue. The British Vogue one featured clothes by Chloe and was shot at Highgate and the John Soane Museum. It came out much better in my opinion. I only did one day and was working with my own make-up and hair people and a model who I've known for years.
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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 love all the Hollywood women. I saw all the films when I was a teenager. Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures.
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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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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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Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.
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