"My pictures are about a search for a……" — 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 when everything comes together and there is that perfect, beautiful, still moment. And for that instant, my life makes sense."
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11 Quotes by Gregory Crewdson
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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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I really love that dynamic between beauty and sadness...theres always these moments of quiet alienation, the sense of disconnect, but…
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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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