Gregory Crewdson Quotes

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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.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Photography

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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 irrational. I’m always looking for a small moment that is a revelation

  Gregory Crewdson

  Photography, Time, Everyday

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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 together and there is that perfect, beautiful, still moment. And for that instant, my life makes sense.

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  Inspirational, Beautiful, Photography

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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

  Gregory Crewdson

  Artist, Trying, Tasks

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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 making it. I'm always trying to create beauty, reveal hope, show the sense of longing that exists in isolation and loneliness, and capture the search for something greater inside all of my subjects.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Beauty, Photography, Hope

  "Creating Photographic Art - Exclusive Interview With Gregory Crewdson". Interview with David Geffin, fstoppers.com. October 11, 2014.

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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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  Photography, Art, Light

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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.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Love, Beauty, Sadness

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• 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

  Artist, Expression, Giving

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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 otherworldly. My wish is for the narrative in the pictures to work within that circumstance. It is that sense of in-between-ness that interests me.

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  Twilight, Wish, Quality

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• The viewer is more likely to project their own narrative onto the picture.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Narrative, Projects, Viewers

  Source: theamericanreader.com

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• The whole reason I make these pictures is for those moments of clarity. For that single moment, everything seems to make sense in my world. And I think we all look for that in our lives, because our lives are generally filled with chaos and confusion and disorder and complication.

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  Single Mom, Thinking, Confusion

  Source: theamericanreader.com

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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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  Photography, Art, Nature

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• It is really important to have an obsessive need to construct something, to understand something from your own experience.

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  Important, Needs, Obsessive

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• I'm very moved by the fact that people are drawn into the pictures and that they do bring their own history and their own interpretation to the photograph. I think that's why they work in a certain way.

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  Thinking, People, Way

  Source: theamericanreader.com

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• 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 answer the question of what propels me to do the things that I do. But that always remains a mystery.

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  Answers, Want, Mystery

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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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  Photography, Memories, Past

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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 of things for an unexpected sense of mystery.

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  Photography, Father, Artist

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• The suburban landscape is alien and strange and exotic. I photograph it out of longing and desire. My photographs are also about repression and internal angst.

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  Desire, Landscape, Exotic

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• If my pictures are about anything at all, I think it's about trying to make a connection in the world. I see them as more optimistic in a certain way. Even though it's very clear there's a level of sadness and disconnection, I think that they're really about trying to make a connection and almost the impossibility of doing so.

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  Optimistic, Sadness, Thinking

  Source: theamericanreader.com

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• I want to privilege the moment.

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  Privilege, Want, Moments

  Source: theamericanreader.com

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• In "Twilight," the narratives are more literal, and the event is much more spectacular. The pictures in "Beneath the Roses" are much more psychological and grounded in reality.

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  Twilight, Reality, Rose

  Source: theamericanreader.com

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• You have this ambition to make something perfect, exactly right. Of course, necessarily, it fails in some way and you have to accept that for what it is, and then you're on to the next thing.

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  Ambition, Perfect, Way

  Source: theamericanreader.com

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• I think my pictures are really about a kind of tension between my need to make a perfect picture and the impossibility of doing so. Something always fails, there's always a problem, and photography fails in a certain sense... This is what drives you to the next picture.

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  Photography, Thinking, Perfect

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• Originally, one of the reasons I was drawn to photography, as opposed to painting or sculpture or installation, is that of all the arts it is the most democratic, in so far as it's instantly readable and accessible to our culture. Photography is how we move information back and forth.

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  Photography, Art, Moving

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• For all the talk of my pictures being narratives or that they're about storytelling, there's really very little actually happening in the pictures. One of the few things I always tell people in my pictures is that I want less - give me something less.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Giving, People, Want

  Source: theamericanreader.com

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