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Top 30 Cindy Sherman Quotes (2025 Update)

Cindy Sherman Quote: “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.”

1. “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

Cindy Sherman Quote: “Dreamers are those who have achieved in love and life, because it is a dream that got them there.”

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

— Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman Quote: “Nowadays, with digital printing, it’s so easy to make everything perfect, which is not always a good idea. Sometimes the mistakes are really what make a piece.”

3. “Nowadays, with digital printing, it’s so easy to make everything perfect, which is not always a good idea. Sometimes the mistakes are really what make a piece.”

— Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman Quote: “I’m trying to make other people recognize something of themselves rather than me.”

4. “I’m trying to make other people recognize something of themselves rather than me.”

— Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman Quote: “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.”

5. “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

Cindy Sherman Quote: “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 think I can. I have an appreciation for why people choose to look the way they do. But I can’t know what they experience.”

6. “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 think I can. I have an appreciation for why people choose to look the way they do. But I can’t know what they experience.”

— Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman Quote: “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.”

7. “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

Cindy Sherman Quote: “I’m really just using the mirror to summon something I don’t even know until I see it.”

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

— Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Cindy Sherman Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Cindy Sherman Quote: “I didn’t have any interest in traditional art.”

11. “I didn’t have any interest in traditional art.”

— Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman Quote: “Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work.”

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

— Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman Quote: “The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.”

13. “The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.”

— Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman Quote: “I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.”

14. “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

Cindy Sherman Quote: “We’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.”

15. “We’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.”

— Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman Quote: “I’m disgusted with how people get themselves to look beautiful; I’m much more fascinated with the other side.”

16. “I’m disgusted with how people get themselves to look beautiful; I’m much more fascinated with the other side.”

— Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman Quote: “One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.”

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

— Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman Quote: “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.”

18. “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

Cindy Sherman Quote: “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.”

19. “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

Cindy Sherman Quote: “Believing in one’s own art becomes harder and harder when the public response grows fonder.”

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

— Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman Quote: “I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.”

21. “I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.”

— Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

— Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman Quote: “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.”

23. “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

Cindy Sherman Quote: “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.’”

24. “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.’”

— Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman Quote: “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.”

25. “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

Cindy Sherman Quote: “The way I see it, as soon as I make a piece I’ve lost control of it.”

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

— Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman Quote: “The models have always been the least interesting thing about fashion.”

27. “The models have always been the least interesting thing about fashion.”

— Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman Quote: “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.”

28. “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

Cindy Sherman Quote: “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.”

29. “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

Cindy Sherman Quote: “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.”

30. “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

Cindy Sherman Quote: “My ideas are not developed before I actually do the pieces.”

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

— Cindy Sherman

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