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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
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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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I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.
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I won't show a picture where a person doesn't look beautiful.
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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 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 remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.
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I start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.
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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 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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The thing that drives me most crazy in the world is not to be believed.
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American magazines are becoming very patriotic beyond belief to the point that I can't live there any more.
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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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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 also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped.
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I don't think of Maria Schneider like idol anymore, because I worshipped her when I was young.
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I never thought heroin was very chic.
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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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I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.
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The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.
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