76 Quotes by Cindy Sherman

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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.

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    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.

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    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

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    I had to redo my last house after the pipes burst, and something was lost in the renovation. The soul of the old space was compromised.

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    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.

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    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.

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