Being able to make a living doing something one truly loves to do - is my definition of success.

- Cindy Sherman

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

- Cindy Sherman

I like making images that from a distance seem kind of seductive, colorful, luscious and engaging, and then you realize what you're looking at is som…

- Cindy Sherman

I can be fearlessly strong at times to protect an inner frailty.

- Cindy Sherman

We'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 th…

- Cindy Sherman

I am always surprised at all the things people read into my photos, but it also amuse me. That may be because I have nothing specific in mind when I'…

- Cindy Sherman

People are always trying to find the next groovy thing, and it hasn't gone back to painting... I'd like it to go back to painting. I'm sick of all th…

- Cindy Sherman

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 cont…

- 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.

- Cindy Sherman