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The thing that drives me most crazy in the world is not to be believed.

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 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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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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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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It's a hideous feeling to go round shopping and even feel like you are a freak.
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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 never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.
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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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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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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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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 have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.
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If I do continue to do fashion, I would want to radicalise it.
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I did [heroin] maybe when I was 18 but I got over that pretty quickly.
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