To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema.… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
Not only has photography so thoroughly saturated our visual environment as to make the invention of visual images seem archaic, but it… — Douglas Crimp Art Copy Share Image
[Cindy Sherman's] photographs reverse the terms of art and autobiography. They use art not to reveal the artist's true self but to… — Douglas Crimp Art Copy Share Image
The desire of representation exists only insofar as the original is always deferred. It is only in the absence of the original… — Douglas Crimp Absence Copy Share Image
Through reproductive technology, postmodernist art dispenses with the aura. The fiction of the creating subject gives way to a frank confiscation, quotation,… — Douglas Crimp Accumulation Copy Share Image
![“[Cindy Sherman's] photographs reverse the terms of art and autobiography. They use art not to reveal the artist's true self but to show the self as an imaginary construct. There is no real Cindy Sherman in these photographs; there are only the guises she assumes. And she does not create these…” quote by Douglas Crimp](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/163/douglas-crimp-60932_art_cindy-sherman-s-photographs-reverse-the_987958.jpg)
