Nan Goldin Quotes - Page 3

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• Now what I like is that other artists know my work and are interested in me or want to collaborate.

  Nan Goldin

  Artist, Want, Knows

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• One of the things I love so much about Valerie [Belin] is that she inhabits her body so completely. She has no self-consciousness about having stretch marks or having given birth. It's just so amazing that she has nothing to hide. Whereas all these other women see every little - supposed - imperfection - anything irregular is seen as an imperfection.

  Nan Goldin

  Self, Imperfection, Things I Love

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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.

  Nan Goldin

  Art, Children, Catholic

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• I have very healthy strong relationships with women.

  Nan Goldin

  Strong, Healthy, Strong Relationship

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• In '83 I started travelling round Europe with my slide show. It wasn't until I moved to Europe and got accepted in a big way in Berlin in the '90s that I got acceptance by the big art world in New York. I didn't really get to be known, or in the market, til '93 in New York.

  Nan Goldin

  Art, New York, Acceptance

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• In America, more than half the population are overweight. It's not healthy and I'm not proud of that but I don't hate having a woman's body.

  Nan Goldin

  Hate, America, Healthy

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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.

  Nan Goldin

  Art, New York, Mean

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• I was recently interviewed for radio in relation to the "Thanksgiving" show [2001] at the Saatchi gallery that I was part of. The interviewer said that people in London were very disturbed that I showed a picture of myself battered ("Nan One Month after Being Battered", 1984) and they thought that I set it up. I was accused of deliberately putting on a wig for that particular picture.

  Nan Goldin

  People, Wigs, Radio

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• 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

  Fashion, Thinking, Blonde

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• If I do continue to do fashion, I would want to radicalise it.

  Nan Goldin

  Fashion, Want, Ifs

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• 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

  Museums, Cities, Firsts

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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.

  Nan Goldin

  Years, Old Friends, Moss

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• I did [heroin] maybe when I was 18 but I got over that pretty quickly.

  Nan Goldin

  Heroin

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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".

  Nan Goldin

  Clothes, Getting High, Heroin

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• 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

  Cute, Real, Amsterdam

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• The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.

  Nan Goldin

  Art, Church, Saint

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• I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.

  Nan Goldin

  Eye, Catholic, Guilt

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• No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest.

  Nan Goldin

  Guilt, Priests, Jew

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• I'm very much interested in water and women in water. I've been photographing that for years although I didn't really know it at the time.

  Nan Goldin

  Years, Water, Knows

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• [I influenced by ]the work of early [Michelangelo] Antonioni, Orson Welles and [Carlo] Pasolini, I love [Nicolas Jack] Roeg's film "Performance".

  Nan Goldin

  Film, Performances

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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.

  Nan Goldin

  Clothes, Museums, Hair

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• In a way, it [my style] is an homage. But I didn't really know about it at first. But then when I started living in Berlin in the early '90s, I started getting ID and Dazed and Confused. I was shocked how close things were to my work.

  Nan Goldin

  Confused, Style, Way

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• I don't know if Yves St Laurent likes my work but Pierre Bergé does.

  Nan Goldin

  Doe, Likes, Knows

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• Stella McCartney is [my] big fan.

  Nan Goldin

  Fans, Stella, Bigs

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• At the same time as the UK Vogue one, I did a shoot that took about 40 days of friends and people I admired in Paris, for French Vogue. This is how I met Maria Schneider in June and which began our friendship.

  Nan Goldin

  June, Paris, People

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