"My pictures must first be beautiful, but that……" — Gregory Crewdson
"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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11 Quotes by Gregory Crewdson
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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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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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More Anxiety Quotes
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
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Now is the age of anxiety.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we…
— Lord Acton
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I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart…
— Alan Ball
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I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.
— Clive Barker
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Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence…
— Clive Barker
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First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of…
— Saint Basil
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Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety.
— Bob Beauprez
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Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes…
— Martha Beck
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
— Josh Billings
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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
— Aesop
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