{"id":13049,"date":"2014-03-28T08:55:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T12:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=13049"},"modified":"2014-03-28T08:55:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T12:55:15","slug":"20-quotes-by-photographer-cindy-sherman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/13049\/20-quotes-by-photographer-cindy-sherman\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Quotes By Photographer Cindy Sherman"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nHere’s a collection of quotes by photographer Cindy Sherman<\/a>.
\n\u201cWe’re all products of what we want to project to the world. Even people who don’t spend any time, or think they don’t, on preparing themselves for the world out there – I think that ultimately they have for their whole lives groomed themselves to be a certain way, to present a face to the world.\u201d – Cindy Sherman
\n\u201cI 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.\u201d – Cindy Sherman
\n\u201cI\u2019ll 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.\u201d – Cindy Sherman
\n\u201cEveryone 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.\u201d – Cindy Sherman
\n\u201cThe still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.\u201d – Cindy Sherman
\n\u201cI 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\u2026\u201d – Cindy Sherman
\n\u201cSome 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.\u201d – Cindy Sherman
\n\u201cI 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.\u201d – Cindy Sherman
\n\u201cI\u2019m really just using the mirror to summon something I don’t even know until I see it.\u201d – Cindy Sherman
\n\u201cIf I knew what the picture was going to be like I wouldn\u2019t make it. It was almost like it was made already.. the challenge is more about trying to make what you can\u2019t think of.\u201d – Cindy Sherman
\n\u201cMy ideas are not developed before I actually do the pieces.\u201d – Cindy Sherman
\n\u201cThe way I see it, as soon as I make a piece I\u2019ve lost control of it.\u201d – Cindy Sherman
\n\u201cI 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.\u201d – Cindy Sherman
\n\u201cEvery 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.\u201d – Cindy Sherman
\n\u201cBelieving in one\u2019s own art becomes harder and harder when the public response grows fonder.\u201d – Cindy Sherman
\n\u201cPeople 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.\u201d – Cindy Sherman
\n\u201cThe work is what it is and hopefully it\u2019s seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I\u2019m not going to go around espousing theoretical bullshit about feminist stuff.\u201d – Cindy Sherman
\n\u201cI 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.\u201d – Cindy Sherman
\n\u201cOne reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.\u201d – Cindy Sherman
\n\u201cI didn’t have any interest in traditional art.\u201d – Cindy Sherman
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