Nan Goldin Quotes - Page 2

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• You know it's said that you make your own face. So you don't really have a face until you are 30 or your mid-20s. When you are starting to grow up and show your character in your face.

  Nan Goldin

  Growing Up, Character, Faces

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• My life there[in New York] was almost entirely about gay men for 30 years.

  Nan Goldin

  New York, Gay, Men

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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.

  Nan Goldin

  Years, Ideas, Clothes

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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.

  Nan Goldin

  Beautiful, Thinking, Want

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• There are days when everyone in the world looks like a Diane Arbus to me. She's a genius but her work is completely different to mine. But on those days I don't use my camera.

  Nan Goldin

  Cameras, Different, Looks

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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.

  Nan Goldin

  Self, Years, Broken

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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

  Thinking, Important, Life Is

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• I think it killed my sister as the times she was living in were so conformist. This is a subject I really want to deal with. I want to start making films about female rage.

  Nan Goldin

  Thinking, Female, Want

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• 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

  Fashion, Years, Anorexia

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• I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.

  Nan Goldin

  Girl, Growing Up, Way

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• I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.

  Nan Goldin

  Thinking, Benefits, Theory

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

  Nan Goldin

  Shopping, Feelings, Freak

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• One of the major things I really want to work on now is female rage because that's not dealt with at all - and I have a lot of it.

  Nan Goldin

  Female, Want, Rage

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• I think it's obscene that many people are starving to death from anorexia. It's been said many times, it's trite. But when so much evil is going on against, for example the Afghani people, where women are being so oppressed that a woman's body is a battlefield.

  Nan Goldin

  Thinking, People, Evil

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• No place could be less sympathetic to my politics than America.

  Nan Goldin

  America, Sympathetic

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• I've been alone for about eight years and it doesn't bother me.

  Nan Goldin

  Eight, Years, Bother

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• I won't show a picture where a person doesn't look beautiful.

  Nan Goldin

  Beautiful, Looks, Shows

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• I feel like if I started to use it [camera] that way, it would be like a sin almost. I never show people ugly pictures I take of them. I usually destroy them. So even if I like it, and they don't, it doesn't get shown.

  Nan Goldin

  People, Cameras, Would Be

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• Each time I spend with Stella McCartney, I like her better. So I was excited to be asked by her.

  Nan Goldin

  Like Her, Excited, Stella

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• I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.

  Nan Goldin

  Art, Thinking, Renaissance

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• I never thought heroin was very chic.

  Nan Goldin

  Heroin, Chic

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• When I started photographing my boyfriend of years ago, Brian, I realised I had no right to photograph other people having sex if I wasn't prepared to take them of myself too

  Nan Goldin

  Sex, Years, People

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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

  Fashion, Crazy, Thinking

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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.

  Nan Goldin

  Real, Ideas, Paris

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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.

  Nan Goldin

  Fashion, Clothes, Done

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