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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.

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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The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.
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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 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 never thought heroin was very chic.
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I also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped.
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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'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 won't show a picture where a person doesn't look beautiful.
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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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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'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 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 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 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 start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.
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If I do continue to do fashion, I would want to radicalise it.
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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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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 have very healthy strong relationships with women.
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I like Stella [McCartney] a lot - she's a very open and warm person. I don't particularly want to know about her background.
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