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.
Interpretation
The quote conveys a critique of gender disparity in the valuation of art and the competitiveness faced by women artists.
Cindy Sherman's quote highlights the ongoing issues of gender bias in the art world, where the contributions of female artists may be undervalued compared to their male counterparts. She expresses her determination to compete with male artists, pointing out the unfairness of the situation and calling attention to the need for equality in recognition and financial compensation within the art community.
In practice
This quote would be powerful to use during an art exhibition opening to discuss gender issues in the arts.
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 something totally opposite. It seems boring to me to pursue the typical idea of beauty, because that is the easiest and the most obvious way to see the world. It's more challenging to look at the other side.
Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. 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.
I wanted pretty pictures of older women - women who are trying too hard but succeeding - pulling off an extreme look. What I didn't know would creep into the portraits was a vulnerability behind the strong facade that most of them wear.
No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters, the well-worn situations, the commonplace story that excites your derision, seem neither hackneyed, well worn nor commonplace to him. ... The conclusion is obvious: you cannot write anything that will convince unless you are yourself convinced. The best seller sells because he writes with his heart's blood.
Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.
It is not theatre that is indispensable, but something quite different. To cross the frontiers between you and me.
Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.
I love being able to reach people directly, but in an ideal scenario, I would not have to rush the release of new music… but the message is still there.
The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.
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