Gregory Crewdson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Loneliness #Dark #Trying
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

#Sadness #Quiet #Moments
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. Iâ€™m always looking for a small moment that is a revelation
-- Gregory Crewdson

#Everyday #Routine #Want
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

#Beautiful #Anxiety #Firsts
Iâ€™m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire
-- Gregory Crewdson

#Anxiety #Desire #Iconography
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.
-- Gregory Crewdson

#Photography #Father #Thinking
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.
-- Gregory Crewdson

#Photography #Light #Strange
I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.
-- Gregory Crewdson

#Photography #Memories #Past
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
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.
-- Gregory Crewdson

#Twilight #Wish #Quality
My pictures are about a search for a momentâ€”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.
-- Gregory Crewdson

#Beautiful #Powerful #Perfect

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