I went to work
I went to work one morning, and outside my door was Cindy Crawford in a black bra, and I thought that very clearly the building is making progress in integrating itself into various layers of our culture. Esa-Pekka Salonen
Cindy
[Cindy Sherman’s] photographs reverse
[Cindy Sherman’s] photographs reverse the terms of art and autobiography. They use art not to reveal the artist’s true self but to show the self as an imaginary construct. There is no real Cindy Sherman in these photographs; there are only the guises she assumes. And she does not create these guises; she simply chooses … Read more
If you tell me,
If you tell me, I will leave you alone, I said. And if you don’t tell me, I am going to grab the nearest ghostwritten James Patterson romance novel and I am going to follow you through this store reading it out loud until you relent. Would you prefer me to read from Daphne’s Three … Read more
People like Marilyn Monroe,
People like Marilyn Monroe, Cindy Crawford and Pamela Anderson have done Playboy, and look at their careers! Danielle O’Hara
I didn’t have any
I didn’t have any interest in traditional art. Cindy Sherman
One reason I was
One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object. Cindy Sherman
The way I see
The way I see it, as soon as I make a piece I’ve lost control of it. Cindy Sherman
I didn’t think of
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
[My work is] maybe
[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
The work is what
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