Cindy Sherman Quotes

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

The music comes from within and outside. Within is the big mystery of life; we've all got it.

I seek to speak to you, in some way, as your own self. Who can tell what this may meanI myself do not know, but if you listen, things will be said that are perhaps not written in this book. And this will be due not to me but to the One who lives and speaks in both.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us.

It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

I think that a good deal of poetry and art gives us some sense of access to another's voice, perception, texture of thought, imagination. Sometimes it gives us better access to the strangeness in ourselves.

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

Sometimes I was so busy being tuned in to outside ideas, expectations, and demands, I failed to hear the unique music in my soul. I forfeited my ability to listen creatively to my deepest self, to my own God within.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you'll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

When I started writing, I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the more confused, and for an artist I think that is quite a good thing: you allow in more of your instinctual self; your dreams, fantasies and memories. It's richer, in a way.

I have always had a mystical attitude toward inspiration. That's my nature.

The mystery of the soul is like that of a closed door. When you open it, you see something which was not there before.

I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.

You are what you've been looking for. The answer is always in you alone. There is nothing in the external world. For the external world is an emanation of your own mind, your own thinking and your own imagination. You created this world.

My guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere.

There is no point in trying to remember your dreams ... There is only the unspeakable joy of eavesdropping on your spirit, catching tiny glimpses of its independent life, resting for a moment in its wisdom, puzzling, laughing sometimes, over what it's up to, what it makes of you.

That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.

I feel myself inhabited by a force or being -- very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.

There is something in us that is wiser than our head.

In each of us there is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves. When, therefore, we find ourselves in a difficult situation to which there is no solution, he can sometimes kindle a light that radically alters our attitude - the very attitude that led us into the difficult situation.

You sit in your tepee and dream and then you go to wherever the dream may take you. It might come true. You wait for real life to catch up.