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I have very healthy strong relationships with women.

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 never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.
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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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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'm not ashamed of my body and you know everything in the fashion world, if I was vulnerable to it, could drive me crazy. I think it produces so much self-hatred.
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I also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped.
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The complete disregard for the camera's presence indicates its complete saturation in their lives. The subject neither notices nor seems to care that someone has been invited into their private moment.
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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'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 won't show a picture where a person doesn't look beautiful.
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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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I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I wanted to make a record of real life. That included having a camera with me at all times.
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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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If I do continue to do fashion, I would want to radicalise it.
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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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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 photographed Maggie Cheung - but these didn't develop into a friendship either.
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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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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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