I never thought heroin was very chic. by Nan Goldin

I never thought heroin was very chic.

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I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way... by Nan Goldin

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

growing-up girl way

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.

want mean people

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.

paris real ideas

My work is received more intelligently in Europe. by Nan Goldin

My work is received more intelligently in Europe.

europe

Gena Rowlands is fabulous. by Nan Goldin

Gena Rowlands is fabulous.

fabulous

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.

light taken night

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

sex people years

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.

knows water years

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.

wigs radio people

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

catholic guilt eye

No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - th... by Nan Goldin

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

jew priests guilt

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.

wall working-together ideas

I start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films. by Nan Goldin

I start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.

wall paint film

[John] Cassavetes, "Killing of a Chinese Booker", "Opening Night"... by Nan Goldin

[John] Cassavetes, "Killing of a Chinese Booker", "Opening Night" are my favourites.

chinese killing night

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

film performances

I love all the Hollywood women. I saw all the films when I was a teenager. Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures".

teenager saws hollywood

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.

amsterdam real cute

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.

new-york mean art