Cindy Sherman

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…

— Cindy Sherman

I don't think I can see the world through other people's eyes, but I can capture an attitude or a look that…

— Cindy Sherman

I’m really just using the mirror to summon something I don't even know until I see it.

— Cindy Sherman

Quite often, I will do something and think, 'Oh, no, she looks a little too much like me.' I have tried to…

— Cindy Sherman

The way I see it, as soon as I make a piece I’ve lost control of it.

— Cindy Sherman

When I do work, I get so much done in such a concentrated time that once I’m through a series, I’m so…

— Cindy Sherman

I didn't have any interest in traditional art.

— Cindy Sherman

I always need to get away from whatever it is I've just finished, to feel a distance from it.

— 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…

— Cindy Sherman

Some people have told me they remember the film that one of my images is derived from, but in fact I had…

— 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…

— Cindy Sherman

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…

— Cindy Sherman

I have had a lifelong fascination with horror movies, scary movies, how they work.

— Cindy Sherman

Dreamers are those who have achieved in love and life, because it is a dream that got them there.

— Cindy Sherman

I wanted pretty pictures of older women - women who are trying too hard but succeeding - pulling off an extreme look.…

— Cindy Sherman

I want there to be hints of narrative everywhere in the image so that people can make up their own stories about…

— Cindy Sherman

My message for people to not take anything for granted, to respect what they might not understand.

— 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…

— 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…

— Cindy Sherman

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

I like making images that from a distance seem kind of seductive, colorful, luscious and engaging, and then you realize what you're…

— 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…

— Cindy Sherman

The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.

— Cindy Sherman

The more horrific works came out of a feeling that everyone accepted my stuff too easily. I was deliberately trying to be…

— Cindy Sherman