My work is received more intelligently in Europe. Nan Goldin More Quotes by Nan Goldin More Quotes From Nan Goldin If I say something honestly, generally, I am being completely honest and don't tell me I am lying. It drives me crazy to be told I set up my pictures. How does it benefit me to lie? I guess they are afraid to believe it and are afraid to look at it. Nan Goldin crazy believe lying [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 clothes years ideas 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 evil people thinking I've been alone for about eight years and it doesn't bother me. Nan Goldin eight bother years 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 imperfection things-i-love self 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 cities museums firsts 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 catholic children art 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 moss old-friends years My life there[in New York] was almost entirely about gay men for 30 years. Nan Goldin gay new-york men I did [heroin] maybe when I was 18 but I got over that pretty quickly. Nan Goldin heroin I have very healthy strong relationships with women. Nan Goldin strong-relationship healthy strong 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 getting-high heroin clothes 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 blonde thinking I had said that when the first Bush got elected that I would leave the country. And when the second Bush wasn't even elected properly. Nan Goldin said country firsts I wasn't there [in U.S] when the city was bombed but it seems to have changed my friends. Nan Goldin my-friends changed cities American magazines are becoming very patriotic beyond belief to the point that I can't live there any more. Nan Goldin magazines patriotic becoming Some people have become [in U.S] a lot more conservative but I can't really speak about that because I wasn't there. I feel compassion for their pain but it distresses me to see them all become more patriotic. Nan Goldin patriotic pain compassion 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 I never thought heroin was very chic. Nan Goldin chic heroin The idea that a fashion photograph could make you cry doesn't happen. And I'm proud to say that my slideshows can make people cry. Nan Goldin fashion people ideas
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