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Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.

Nan Goldin

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Nan Goldin
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 12
Photographer
Printmaker
Washington
District of Columbia
Nancy Goldin
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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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I did [heroin] maybe when I was 18 but I got over that pretty quickly.
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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 very healthy strong relationships with women.
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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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I never thought heroin was very chic.
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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.
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I also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped.
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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 had said that when the first Bush got elected that I would leave the country. And when the second Bush wasn't even elected properly.
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I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.
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Gena Rowlands is fabulous.
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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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Stella McCartney is [my] big fan.
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I've become really interested in the landscape but not as landscape but more as it relates to mood and how we live and how the outside impacts on the inside. I didn't really look at the outside world during the years I was photographing the Ballad as I was locked inside my house and I lived totally inside.
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I'm very flattered when people I respect like my work. It's like a dream of a little kid when somebody I idolised likes my work.
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The thing that drives me most crazy in the world is not to be believed.
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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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When I put my big retrospective together in '96 [for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York], I saw that there were all these pictures of people inside looking out. All these pictures of women in water and mirrors. I don't know what it means.
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