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It's a hideous feeling to go round shopping and even feel like you are a freak.

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'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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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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If I say something honestly, generally, I am being completely honest and don't tell me I am lying. It drives me crazy to be told I set up my pictures. How does it benefit me to lie? I guess they are afraid to believe it and are afraid to look at it.
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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 don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.
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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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Stella McCartney is [my] big fan.
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I did [heroin] maybe when I was 18 but I got over that pretty quickly.
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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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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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The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.
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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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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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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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No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest.
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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 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 never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.
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