If my pictures are about anything at all, I think it's about trying to make a connection in the world. I see them as more optimistic in a certain way. Even though it's very clear there's a level of sadness… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
I really love that dynamic between beauty and sadness...theres always these moments of quiet alienation, the sense of disconnect, but also, these moments of possibility. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
It is really important to have an obsessive need to construct something, to understand something from your own experience. — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
