People think because it's photography it's not worth as much, and because it's a woman artist, you're still not getting as much - there's still definitely that happening. I'm still really competitive when it comes to, I guess, the male painters and male artists. I still think that's really unfair.
Cindy Sherman[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 ShermanIโm really just using the mirror to summon something I donโt even know until I see it.
Cindy ShermanThe 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 ShermanI was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.
Cindy ShermanWe're all products of what we want to project to the world. Even people who don't spend any time, or think they don't, on preparing themselves for the world out there - I think that ultimately they have for their whole lives groomed themselves to be a certain way, to present a face to the world.
Cindy Sherman