Gregory Crewdson Quotes
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My pictures are about a search for a moment—a perfect moment. To me the most powerful moment in the whole process is when everything comes…
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I have always been fascinated by the poetic condition of twilight. By its transformative quality. Its power of turning the ordinary into something magical and…
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I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire
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Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures
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My pictures are about everyday life combined with theatrical effect. I want them to feel outside of time, to take something routine and make it…
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I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.
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My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear.
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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.
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My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search beneath the surface…
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It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the strange.
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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 work as I'm…
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