“I feel very strongly that every artist has one central story to tell. The struggle is to tell and retell that story over and over again, visual form, and try to challenge that story. But at the core that story… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
![“My mom just recently reminded me that I used to build these little miniature worlds outside at our country house and populate it with little figures.That whole thing [shooting is] about trying to create a world - there's something very connected to childhood and reverie and daydreaming and fantasy.” quote by Gregory Crewdson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5cf/gregory-crewdson-16134_childhood_my-mom-just-recently-reminded-me-that-i_1478476.jpg)