Character Quote by Cindy Sherman

“[My work is] maybe about me maybe not wanting to be me and wanting to be all these other characters. Or at least try them on.”

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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…

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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…

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

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Quite often, I will do something and think, 'Oh, no, she looks a little too much like me.' I have tried to learn not…

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

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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…

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I didn't have any interest in traditional art.

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

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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…

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Some people have told me they remember the film that one of my images is derived from, but in fact I had no film…

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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…

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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…

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