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Nan Goldin Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

I have very healthy strong relationships with women Picture Quote #1

I won’t show a picture where a person doesn’t look beautiful Picture Quote #1

Stella McCartney is [my] big fan Picture Quote #1

Actually, I think what is being shown as beauty in fashion magazines right now has become particularly ugly. This kind of straight, blonde very conservative Picture Quote #1

I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked Picture Quote #1

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I never, never photograph someone getting high to sell clothes. I was called, at some point, the person responsible for heroin chic. I didn’t have anything to do with heroin chic Picture Quote #1

I’m very influenced by a lot of things, but my chief influence is my friends and what I see and what I feel and my own experiences and memory Picture Quote #1

Plastic surgery is distressingly popular and I feel that the fashion industry has killed tens of thousands of women over the years from anorexia Picture Quote #1

[I influenced by ]the work of early [Michelangelo] Antonioni, Orson Welles and [Carlo] Pasolini, I love [Nicolas Jack] Roeg’s film Performance Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I like it [Rotterdam] much better than Amsterdam which is too much like a postcard. It’s too cute for me. Rotterdam is more real, it’s got a stomach Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I had my first museum showing of my slide show in Rotterdam, in 1983. I love Rotterdam. I love harbour cities in general Picture Quote #1

I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt Picture Quote #1

The camera is as much a part of my everyday life as talking or eating or sex Picture Quote #1

The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I’m obsessed with churches and paintings of saints Picture Quote #1

I don’t think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art Picture Quote #1

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American magazines are becoming very patriotic beyond belief to the point that I can’t live there any more Picture Quote #1

My life there[in New York] was almost entirely about gay men for 30 years Picture Quote #1

It’s so rare to see a woman’s sexuality, real female sexuality, either in the shows or in the clothes Picture Quote #1

I think the wrong things are kept private Picture Quote #1

I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them Picture Quote #1

I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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. (Nan Goldin Quotes) I have very healthy strong relationships with women (Nan Goldin Quotes) I won’t show a picture where a person doesn’t look beautiful (Nan Goldin Quotes) Stella McCartney is [my] big fan (Nan Goldin Quotes) Actually, I think what is being shown as beauty in fashion magazines right now has become particularly ugly. This kind of straight, blonde very conservative. (Nan Goldin Quotes) I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked (Nan Goldin Quotes) I never, never photograph someone getting high to sell clothes. I was called, at some point, the person responsible for heroin chic. I didn’t have anything to do with heroin chic. (Nan Goldin Quotes) I’m very influenced by a lot of things, but my chief influence is my friends and what I see and what I feel and my own experiences and memory. (Nan Goldin Quotes) Plastic surgery is distressingly popular and I feel that the fashion industry has killed tens of thousands of women over the years from anorexia. (Nan Goldin Quotes) [I influenced by ]the work of early [Michelangelo] Antonioni, Orson Welles and [Carlo] Pasolini, I love [Nicolas Jack] Roeg’s film Performance. (Nan Goldin Quotes) 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. (Nan Goldin Quotes) I like it [Rotterdam] much better than Amsterdam which is too much like a postcard. It’s too cute for me. Rotterdam is more real, it’s got a stomach. (Nan Goldin Quotes) 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. (Nan Goldin Quotes) I had my first museum showing of my slide show in Rotterdam, in 1983. I love Rotterdam. I love harbour cities in general. (Nan Goldin Quotes) I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt. (Nan Goldin Quotes) The camera is as much a part of my everyday life as talking or eating or sex (Nan Goldin Quotes) The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I’m obsessed with churches and paintings of saints. (Nan Goldin Quotes) I don’t think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art (Nan Goldin Quotes) American magazines are becoming very patriotic beyond belief to the point that I can’t live there any more. (Nan Goldin Quotes) My life there[in New York] was almost entirely about gay men for 30 years (Nan Goldin Quotes) It’s so rare to see a woman’s sexuality, real female sexuality, either in the shows or in the clothes (Nan Goldin Quotes) I think the wrong things are kept private (Nan Goldin Quotes) I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit (Nan Goldin Quotes) 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 (Nan Goldin Quotes) My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them (Nan Goldin Quotes) I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends (Nan Goldin Quotes) 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 (Nan Goldin Quotes) 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 (Nan Goldin Quotes)