I wanted pretty pictures of older women - women who are trying too hard but succeeding - pulling off an extreme look. What I didn't know would creep into the portraits was a vulnerability behind the strong facade that most… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
As I was looking through a book about German Expressionist films and their stars, it all came together because of the extreme way actors made their faces up in those early day of film in order to pop out in… — 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)
