Cindy Sherman Quotes

Cindy Sherman

American Photographer

Born: Jan 19, 1954

Face Me People Think Work You

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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

I realised that in my last two bodies of work - the mural and the Chanel pieces - that I didn't use any make-up because I was changing the faces digitally, and I realised I missed make-up in a major way. Cindy Sherman

Work Changing Way Faces Missed Major Pieces Because Any Realised Bodies Use Mural Last Two Chanel

I didn't have any interest in traditional art. Cindy Sherman

Art Traditional Any Interest

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

I always need to get away from whatever it is I've just finished, to feel a distance from it. Cindy Sherman

Finished Whatever Distance Feel Always Get Just Away Need

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

Promise Must Still Itches Story Viewer Tease

I have had a lifelong fascination with horror movies, scary movies, how they work. Cindy Sherman

Work Scary Scary Movies Horror Horror Movies Lifelong Had How Movies Fascination

As I was looking through a book about German Expressionist films and their stars, it all came together because of the extreme way actors made their faces up in those early day of film in order to pop out in the black-and-white. I just wanted to use makeup in the same way, partly perhaps because as women get older, they're told to wear less makeup. Cindy Sherman

Day Together Women Book Made Looking Older Stars Films Extreme Way Those Out Wear About Faces Through Perhaps Partly Because Makeup Came Up German Get Same Just Order Wanted Pop Use Less Film Actor Expressionist Early

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