Cindy Sherman Quotes - Page 2

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

  Cindy Sherman

  Photography, Art, Photographer

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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 to be falling for it.

  Cindy Sherman

  Stupid, Fall, People

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• The models have always been the least interesting thing about fashion.

  Cindy Sherman

  Fashion, Interesting, Models

  "The Real Cindy Sherman" by Cathy Horyn, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 11, 2012.

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

  Cindy Sherman

  Ideas, Pieces, Photographer

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• I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it’s something fantastic. They’re willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy. Even if they know it’s fake they can believe anything. People are accustomed to being told what to believe in.

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  Believe, Thinking, People

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• 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

  Character, Thinking, Trying

  "Cindy Sherman: Me, myself and I" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2011.

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

  Cindy Sherman

  Nuts, Rude, Fuel

  www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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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 in mind at all.

  Cindy Sherman

  People, Mind, Facts

  Cindy Sherman, Régis Durand, Carole-Anne Tyler, Jean-Pierre Criqui (2006). “Cindy Sherman”, Flammarion-Pere Castor

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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 I think, at this point, people read into my work out of habit. Or I'm just very, very smart.

  Cindy Sherman

  Smart, Thinking, People

  Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• I am fine, though it is hard to think of what kind of work to make at this point, other than decorative, escapist or abstract. I suppose I'll explore one or all of these things.

  Cindy Sherman

  Thinking, Kind, Exploration

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• I can't work without it [music]. And it has to be the right kind, because if it's not then I get into a bad mood. I work with a remote so that I can change CDs instantly if I need to.

  Cindy Sherman

  Cds, Needs, Bad Mood

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• 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 same amount of press, but they were going gangbusters with sales.

  Cindy Sherman

  Guy, Painter, Amount

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• I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

  Cindy Sherman

  Art, Ideas, Cameras

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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 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

  Artist, Males, Want

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• Believing in one’s own art becomes harder and harder when the public response grows fonder.

  Cindy Sherman

  Art, Believe, Photographer

  Cindy Sherman, Marianne Stockebrand, Westfälischer Kunstverein (1985). “Photographien”

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• I'd never even thought about compromise when I worked in my studio. The major distinction is in the priority of who I ultimately wanted to please: myself or the audience.

  Cindy Sherman

  Priorities, Compromise, Audience

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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 rip you apart, they're just waiting for you to fall or make the slightest trip up.

  Cindy Sherman

  Travel, Rip, Fall

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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 and Catholics even.

  Cindy Sherman

  Dad, Self, Catholic

  " Cindy Sherman: Me, myself and I" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2011.

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• I didn't have any interest in traditional art.

  Cindy Sherman

  Art, Photographer, Interest

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• 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.

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  Successful, People, Feelings

  "Studio: Cindy Sherman". Interview with Betsy Berne, www.tate.org.uk. June 1, 2003.

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• People are always trying to find the next groovy thing, and it hasn't gone back to painting... I'd like it to go back to painting. I'm sick of all this photography and video. There's so much of it, it's almost annoying.

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  Photography, Always Trying, People

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• I think I always resented the fact that people thought I was trying to entertain them with my multifaceted, chameleonlike character changes. Although I liked doing that, I wasn't out to fool people and say 'Guess which one is me.'

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  Character, Thinking, People

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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 don’t want to get near the camera.

  Cindy Sherman

  Cameras, Done, Want

  "Studio: Cindy Sherman". Interview with Betsy Berne, www.tate.org.uk. June 1, 2003.

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