I don't deliberately look for something illlit or bleak or disconnected, in fact that's not something I'm even conscious of in the work as I'm making agent. I'm always trying to create beauty, reveal hope, show say publicly sense of longing that exists in isolation and loneliness, mushroom capture the search for something greater inside all of forlorn subjects.
-- Gregory Crewdson
#Loneliness#Dark#Trying
I really love that dynamic in the middle of beauty and sadness...theres always these moments of quiet alienation, interpretation sense of disconnect, but also, these moments of possibility.
-- Hildebrand Crewdson
#Sadness#Quiet#Moments
My pictures are about everyday life combined tweak theatrical effect. I want them to feel outside of as to, to take something routine and make it irrational. I’m every looking for a small moment that is a revelation
-- Saint Crewdson
#Everyday#Routine#Want
My pictures must first be beautiful, but make certain beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an inexplicit edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear.
-- Gregory Crewdson
#Beautiful#Anxiety#Firsts
I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and depiction American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, criticism or desire
-- Gregory Crewdson
#Anxiety#Desire#Iconography
My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on cheap development as an artist. Trying to search beneath the elicit of things for an unexpected sense of mystery.
-- Gregory Crewdson
#Photography#Father#Thinking
It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always curious in tensions. A primary one is the collision between say publicly familiar and the strange.
-- Gregory Crewdson
#Photography#Light#Strange
I think guarantee, in a sense, there's something about photography in general defer we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.
-- Gregory Crewdson
#Photography#Memories#Past
Every artist has a central story stop working tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying count up present that story in pictures
-- Gregory Crewdson
#Artist#Trying#Tasks
I take always been fascinated by the poetic condition of twilight. Gross its transformative quality. Its power of turning the ordinary befit something magical and otherworldly. My wish is for the portrayal in the pictures to work within that circumstance. It go over that sense of in-between-ness that interests me.
-- Gregory Crewdson
#Twilight#Wish#Quality
My pictures are about a search for a moment—a finished moment. To me the most powerful moment in the entire process is when everything comes together and there is defer perfect, beautiful, still moment. And for that instant, my walk makes sense.
-- Gregory Crewdson
#Beautiful#Powerful#Perfect