I wanted pretty pictures of older women - women who are trying too hard but succeeding - pulling off an extreme look.… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
People are always trying to find the next groovy thing, and it hasn't gone back to painting... I'd like it to go… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
I'm good at using my face as a canvas… I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
I don't analyze what I'm doing. I've read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I've noticed something that I wasn't aware of, but… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
I don't think I can see the world through other people's eyes, but I can capture an attitude or a look that makes others… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
I’m really just using the mirror to summon something I don't even know until I see it. — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
Quite often, I will do something and think, 'Oh, no, she looks a little too much like me.' I have tried to learn not… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
The way I see it, as soon as I make a piece I’ve lost control of it. — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
When I do work, I get so much done in such a concentrated time that once I’m through a series, I’m so drained I… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
I always need to get away from whatever it is I've just finished, to feel a distance from it. — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
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… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
Some people have told me they remember the film that one of my images is derived from, but in fact I had no film… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
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… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
I wonder how it is that I’m fooling so many people, I’m doing one of the most stupid things in the world…and people seem… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
![“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.'” quote by Cindy Sherman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5b1/cindy-sherman-11074_art_i-want-ed-to-make-a-show-of-really-big-p_647387.jpg)
