Cindy Sherman

“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.”

“The work is what it is and I've said what I've said. I like the ambiguity of it.”

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

“I like making images that from a distance seem kind of seductive, colorful, luscious and tempting, but then you get up close and see something disturbing in them.”

“Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't. I'm just the model.”

“We're all products of what we want to project to the world.”

“If I knew what the picture was going to be like I wouldn’t make it. It was almost like it was made already and I was just trying to find it.”

“I'm not about revealing myself.”

“When I do the makeup, I'm not trying to look pretty. I'm trying to become something else.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“For me, it was a way to be my own muse.”

“I try to make things that are hard to look at.”