I think maybe the figures - that's a good word - the figures in my pictures are stand-ins for my own need… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
The viewer is more likely to project their own narrative onto the picture. — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
My pictures are about everyday life combined with theatrical effect. I want them to feel outside of time, to take something routine… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
The whole reason I make these pictures is for those moments of clarity. For that single moment, everything seems to make sense… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
I'm very moved by the fact that people are drawn into the pictures and that they do bring their own history and… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
Originally, one of the reasons I was drawn to photography, as opposed to painting or sculpture or installation, is that of all… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
I think my pictures are really about a kind of tension between my need to make a perfect picture and the impossibility… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
Since a photograph is frozen and mute, since there is no before and after, I don't want there to be a conscious… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
For all the talk of my pictures being narratives or that they're about storytelling, there's really very little actually happening in the… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
All my pictures are very voyeuristic, but ultimately I'm looking at what lurks in my own interior. I make photographs because I… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
I think that's the nature of representation. No matter what it will disappoint, it will fail in some way.But that's also part… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
I don't deliberately look for something dark or bleak or disconnected, in fact that's not something I'm even conscious of in the… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
If my pictures are about anything at all, I think it's about trying to make a connection in the world. I see… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
The suburban landscape is alien and strange and exotic. I photograph it out of longing and desire. My photographs are also about… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
My pictures are about a search for a moment—a perfect moment. To me the most powerful moment in the whole process is… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
Originally, one of the reasons I was drawn to photography, as opposed to painting or sculpture or installation, is that of all the arts… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share
The suburban landscape is alien and strange and exotic. I photograph it out of longing and desire. My photographs are also about repression and… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share
I was really fixated when I was a child. Again my mother was just talking to me about this, about how I would how… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share
All my pictures are very voyeuristic, but ultimately I'm looking at what lurks in my own interior. I make photographs because I want to… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share
I never know what to call the subjects in my pictures because I'm uncomfortable with the word actor. I think maybe subjects might be… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share
It is really important to have an obsessive need to construct something, to understand something from your own experience. — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share
There's a parallel between me going through these enormous efforts to try to make a moment that means something - and in a way,… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share
What the artist attempts to do is to try and tell a story. Attempting to give physical expression to a story that's internal. — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share
I have always been fascinated by the poetic condition of twilight. By its transformative quality. Its power of turning the ordinary into something magical… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share
My pictures are about everyday life combined with theatrical effect. I want them to feel outside of time, to take something routine and make… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share
I think my pictures are really about a kind of tension between my need to make a perfect picture and the impossibility of doing… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share
I'm very moved by the fact that people are drawn into the pictures and that they do bring their own history and their own… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share
I was never conscious of filming except for when I was location scouting. In a way, that is the most important part of the… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share
My mom just recently reminded me that I used to build these little miniature worlds outside at our country house and populate it with… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share
