American landscape Quote by Gregory Crewdson

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

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

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

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

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

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 a way,…

— 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 internal.

— Gregory Crewdson

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

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

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

I want to privilege the moment.

— Gregory Crewdson