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If I knew what the picture was going to be like I wouldn’t make it. It was almost like it was made already – the challenge is more about trying to make what you can’t think of.
Cindy Sherman
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Cindy Sherman
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 19
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Cynthia Morris Sherman
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More quotes by Cindy Sherman
We're all products of what we want to project to the world. Even people who don't spend any time, or think they don't, on preparing themselves for the world out there - I think that ultimately they have for their whole lives groomed themselves to be a certain way, to present a face to the world.
Cindy Sherman
One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.
Cindy Sherman
I can be fearlessly strong at times to protect an inner frailty.
Cindy Sherman
I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it’s something fantastic. They’re willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy. Even if they know it’s fake they can believe anything. People are accustomed to being told what to believe in.
Cindy Sherman
Believing in one’s own art becomes harder and harder when the public response grows fonder.
Cindy Sherman
Every time you have to come up with a new body of work for a new show, you're aware that people are just ready to rip you apart, they're just waiting for you to fall or make the slightest trip up.
Cindy Sherman
I was supporting myself, but nothing like the guy painters, as I refer to them. I always resented that actually.. we were all getting the same amount of press, but they were going gangbusters with sales.
Cindy Sherman
I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.
Cindy Sherman
Some people have told me they remember the film that one of my images is derived from, but in fact I had no film in mind at all.
Cindy Sherman
I am fine, though it is hard to think of what kind of work to make at this point, other than decorative, escapist or abstract. I suppose I'll explore one or all of these things.
Cindy Sherman
My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even.
Cindy Sherman
Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work.
Cindy Sherman
I am always surprised at all the things people read into my photos, but it also amuse me. That may be because I have nothing specific in mind when I'm working. My intentions are neither feminist nor political. I try to put double or multiple meanings into my photos, which might give rise to a greater variety of interpretations.
Cindy Sherman
I didn't have any interest in traditional art.
Cindy Sherman
I want[ed] to make a show of really big pictures, because you see male artists doing it all the time. It just seemed like such a big egotistical thing. I thought, 'I don't know that many women that really do that.... Damn it, I'm gonna do that-make this really big picture.'
Cindy Sherman
I think I always resented the fact that people thought I was trying to entertain them with my multifaceted, chameleonlike character changes. Although I liked doing that, I wasn't out to fool people and say 'Guess which one is me.'
Cindy Sherman
The work is what it is and hopefully it's seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I'm not going to go around espousing theoretical bullshit about feminist stuff.
Cindy Sherman
[My work is] maybe about me maybe not wanting to be me and wanting to be all these other characters. Or at least try them on.
Cindy Sherman
I didn't think of what I was doing as political. To me it was a way to make the best out of what I liked to do privately, which was to dress up.
Cindy Sherman
I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.
Cindy Sherman
