Cindy Sherman Quotes

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• Every time you have to come up with a new body of work for a new show, you're aware that people are just ready to…
• I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.
• Dreamers are those who have achieved in love and life, because it is a dream that got them there.
• People think because it's photography it's not worth as much, and because it's a woman artist, you're still not getting as much - there's still…
• 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…
• 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…
• I'm good at using my face as a canvas… I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my face.…
• 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.
• Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself…
• 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…
• 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…
• I’m really just using the mirror to summon something I don't even know until I see it.
• If I knew what the picture was going to be like I wouldn’t make it. It was almost like it was made already.. the challenge…
• The way I see it, as soon as I make a piece I’ve lost control of it.
• Believing in one’s own art becomes harder and harder when the public response grows fonder.
• 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 I…
• I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.
• I didn't have any interest in traditional art.
• 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…
• 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 don’t…

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