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I’m trying to make other people recognize something of themselves rather than me.
Cindy Sherman
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Cindy Sherman
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 19
Director
Feminist
Film Director
Photographer
Glen Ridge
New Jersey
Cynthia Morris Sherman
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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I didn't have any interest in traditional art.
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Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work.
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Nowadays, with digital printing, it's so easy to make everything perfect, which is not always a good idea. Sometimes the mistakes are really what make a piece.
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The models have always been the least interesting thing about fashion.
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I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could relate to without knowing about contemporary art. I wasn't thinking in terms of precious prints or archival quality I didn't want the work to seem like a commodity.
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I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.
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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.
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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.
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I was feeling guilty in the beginning it was frustrating to be successful when a lot of my friends weren't. Also, I was constantly being reminded of that by people in my family making jokes.
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[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 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.
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Believing in one’s own art becomes harder and harder when the public response grows fonder.
Cindy Sherman
The way I see it, as soon as I make a piece I’ve lost control of it.
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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.
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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.
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