Gregory Crewdson

Originally, one of the reasons I was drawn to photography, as opposed to painting or sculpture or installation, is that of all…

— Gregory Crewdson

The suburban landscape is alien and strange and exotic. I photograph it out of longing and desire. My photographs are also about…

— Gregory Crewdson

I was really fixated when I was a child. Again my mother was just talking to me about this, about how I…

— Gregory Crewdson

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

I never know what to call the subjects in my pictures because I'm uncomfortable with the word actor. I think maybe subjects…

— Gregory Crewdson

It is really important to have an obsessive need to construct something, to understand something from your own experience.

— Gregory Crewdson

There's a parallel between me going through these enormous efforts to try to make a moment that means something - and in…

— Gregory Crewdson

What the artist attempts to do is to try and tell a story. Attempting to give physical expression to a story that's…

— Gregory Crewdson

I have always been fascinated by the poetic condition of twilight. By its transformative quality. Its power of turning the ordinary into…

— Gregory Crewdson

My pictures are about everyday life combined with theatrical effect. I want them to feel outside of time, to take something routine…

— Gregory Crewdson

I think my pictures are really about a kind of tension between my need to make a perfect picture and the impossibility…

— Gregory Crewdson

I want to privilege the moment.

— Gregory Crewdson

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

I was never conscious of filming except for when I was location scouting. In a way, that is the most important part…

— Gregory Crewdson

My mom just recently reminded me that I used to build these little miniature worlds outside at our country house and populate…

— Gregory Crewdson

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

Usually I'll drive to certain locations over and over again, over a course of months really. And then it might just be…

— Gregory Crewdson

Making that final commitment is really hard. Because once you decide to move forward, it becomes a whole process which is really…

— Gregory Crewdson

In "Twilight," the narratives are more literal, and the event is much more spectacular. The pictures in "Beneath the Roses" are much…

— Gregory Crewdson

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

The whole reason I make these pictures is for those moments of clarity. For that single moment, everything seems to make sense…

— Gregory Crewdson

The viewer is more likely to project their own narrative onto the picture.

— Gregory Crewdson

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

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

We all strive to find moments of clarity, of order.

— Gregory Crewdson