"I really love that dynamic between beauty and……" — Gregory Crewdson
"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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11 Quotes by Gregory Crewdson
Gregory Crewdson has 11 quotes on this site.
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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…
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I have always been fascinated by the poetic condition of twilight. By its transformative quality. Its power of turning the…
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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…
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Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story…
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My pictures are about everyday life combined with theatrical effect. I want them to feel outside of time, to take…
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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…
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My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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More Alienation Quotes
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one of 133 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
— Roland Barthes
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We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes…
— Alex Campbell
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Practically everyone now bemoans Western man's sense of alienation, lack of community, and inability to find ways of organizing society…
— Jean Baker Miller
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In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the…
— Colin Gunton
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The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed…
— J. William Fulbright
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The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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I never understood alienation. Alienation from what? You have to want to be part of something in order to feel…
— Boyd Rice
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We are at home here. Alienation is unnecessary. Contact with reality at a deep level is part of the Christian's…
— Hans Rookmaaker
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The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled…
— Thomas Berry
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Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate…
— Andrea Dworkin
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Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story…
— Thomas Berry
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To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life.…
— James Taylor
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