"[Cindy Sherman's] photographs reverse the terms of art and autobiography. They use art not to reveal the artist's true self but to show the self as an imaginary construct. There is no real Cindy Sherman in these photographs; there are only the guises she assumes. And she does not create these guises; she simply chooses them in the way that any of us do."

-- Douglas Crimp

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“There are things that inform the works, but that doesn't go anywhere near what you're actually looking at.”
“I really don't see the point of making music if you don't love it, and I'm lucky enough to say I love my music, and love the things I've made over the last couple of years and they bring me so much joy.”

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“The funeral was over, at last I could cry. Except that I couldn't. My tears, kept in too long, had fossilized. They would have to stay in forever now.”
“If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would've said, 'That's not how it works.' But nothing can be more gratifying. I'm a very hands-on dad.”

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“The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.”
“How it will happen, how the Universe will bring it to you, is not your concern or job. Allow the Universe to do it for you.”
“As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be liked.”
“A nation as such does not give aid to another nation. More precisely, the common citizens of our country, through their taxes, give to the privileged elites of another country. As someone once said: foreign aid is when the poor people of a rich country give money to the rich people of a poor country.”

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