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I like making images that fro...

I like making images that from a distance seem kind of seductive, colorful, luscious and engaging, and then you realize what you're looking at is something totally opposite. It seems boring to me to pursue the typical idea of beauty, because that is the easiest and the most obvious way to see the world. It's more challenging to look at the other side.

Cindy Sherman 45 quotes

[My work is] maybe about me m...

[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.

Cindy Sherman 45 quotes

I am always surprised at all ...

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 specific in mind when I'm working. My intentions are neither feminist nor political. I try to put double or multiple meanings into my photos, which might give rise to a greater variety of interpretations.

Cindy Sherman 45 quotes

I want[ed] to make a show of ...

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.'

Cindy Sherman 45 quotes

Inconsiderate, rude behavior d...

Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work.

Cindy Sherman 45 quotes

So many things suddenly made s...

So many things suddenly made sense for the clowns, for the whole idea. I'd been going through a struggle, particularly after 9/11; I couldn't figure out what I wanted to say. I still wanted the work to be the same kind of mixture Ђ' intense, with a nasty side or an ugly side, but also with a real pathos about the characters Ђ' and clowns have an underlying sense of sadness while they're trying to cheer people up. Clowns are sad, but they're also psychotically, hysterically happy.

Cindy Sherman 45 quotes

People think because it's phot...

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 definitely that happening. I'm still really competitive when it comes to, I guess, the male painters and male artists. I still think that's really unfair.

Cindy Sherman 45 quotes

I didn't think of what I was d...

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 to do privately, which was to dress up.

Cindy Sherman 45 quotes

I am always surprised at all t...

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 specific in mind when I'm working. My intentions are neither feminist nor political. I try to put double or multiple meanings into my photos, which might give rise to a greater variety of interpretations

Cindy Sherman 45 quotes

Everyone thinks these are self...

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 to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible.

Cindy Sherman 45 quotes

I feel I'm anonymous in my wor...

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.

Cindy Sherman 45 quotes

I'm good at using my face as a...

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 think I'm really observant, and thinking how a person is put together, seeing them on the street and noticing subtle things about them that make them who they are.

Cindy Sherman 45 quotes

The work is what it is and hop...

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 bullshit about feminist stuff.

Cindy Sherman 45 quotes

I didn't want to make 'high' a...

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 knowing about contemporary art. I wasn't thinking in terms of precious prints or archival quality; I didn't want the work to seem like a commodity.

Cindy Sherman 45 quotes

One reason I was interested in...

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.

Cindy Sherman 45 quotes

My ideas are not developed bef...

My ideas are not developed before I actually do the pieces.

Cindy Sherman 45 quotes

Some people have told me they ...

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

Cindy Sherman 45 quotes

I'm really just using the mirr...

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

Cindy Sherman 45 quotes

Dreamers are those who have ac...

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

Cindy Sherman 45 quotes

I was feeling guilty in the be...

I was feeling guilty in the beginning; it was frustrating to be successful when a lot of my friends weren't. Also, I was constantly being reminded of that by people in my family making jokes.

Cindy Sherman 45 quotes

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