Quotes by Cindy Sherman

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.

Character

Cindy

Trying

Being able to make a living doing something one truly loves to do – is my definition of success.

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

Art

Believe

Photographer

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

Dream

Life And Love

Love

Early in my career, a critic said that I needed to “explain” the irony in my work, suggesting that I needed to add text next to the images to help people understand what I was trying to say. At first I was dismayed that I wasn’t making work with a clear enough message. That’s when I realized that that was the exact opposite of what I wanted to do – that I wasn’t responsible for a misinterpretation of my work, that there should be some ambiguity to it. They either got it, or they didn’t.

Careers

Opposites

People

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.

Fall

Rip

Travel

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.

Self

Silly

Thinking

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.

Feminist

Giving

People

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.

Exploration

Kind

Thinking

I can be fearlessly strong at times to protect an inner frailty.

Protect

Strong

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Always Trying

Amount

Appreciation

Art

Artist

Attitude

Audience

Bad Mood

Believe

Book

Bullshit

Cameras

Careers

Catholic

Cds

Challenges

Character

Cheer

Cindy

Compromise

Dad

Distance

Done

Dream

Dresses

Exploration

Eye

Facts

Fall

Fashion

Feelings

Feminist

Feminist Art

Fuel

Giving

Granted

Guy

Horror Stories

Humorous

Ideas

Interest

Interesting

Kind

Knowing

Knows

Life And Love

Looks

Love

Males

Mind

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Quotes by Cindy Sherman

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.

Being able to make a living doing something one truly loves to do – is my definition of success.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I can be fearlessly strong at times to protect an inner frailty.

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