Cindy Sherman Quotes about Art

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.

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

Photography, Art, Mistake

"It Began with Madame de Pompadour". Interview with Susan Sollin, art21.org. July 2013.

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

Cindy Sherman

Art, Book, People

Cindy Sherman, Zdenek Felix, Elisabeth Bronfen, Martin Schwander, Deichtorhallen Hamburg (1995). “Cindy Sherman: photographic work 1975-1995”, Schirmer/Mosel

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

Art, Thinking, Knowing