Quotes by Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewdson

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.

Answers

Mystery

Want

Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures

Artist

Tasks

Trying

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.

Beauty

Hope

Photography

I never know what to call the subjects in my pictures because I’m uncomfortable with the word actor. I think maybe subjects might be more accurate – or maybe even more accurate is objects.

Actors

Might

Thinking

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.

Beauty

Love

Sadness

I think that, in a sense, there’s something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.

Memories

Past

Photography

I think that’s the nature of representation. No matter what it will disappoint, it will fail in some way.But that’s also part of the magic of art. If every picture met my expectation in exactly the right way, there’d be no mystery; there’d be no gap between what’s in my head and the picture I make.

Art

Expectations

Thinking

I want to privilege the moment.

Moments

Privilege

Want

I was never conscious of filming except for when I was location scouting. In a way, that is the most important part of the entire process – and the most private. I’m so used to doing that alone. Unlike every other part, it’s just me, alone, on location.It’s very hard to describe what I’m looking for – something that feels both familiar and strange at the same time. It’s not enough for it just to be strange or mysterious, it also has to feel very ordinary, very familiar, and very nondescript.

Important

Location

Way

I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire

Art

Nature

Photography

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Ambition

Answers

Art

Artist

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Beauty

Confusion

Country

Expectations

Expression

Giving

Hope

House

Important

Inspirational

Intimate

Location

Love

Memories

Might

Mom

Moments

Moving

Mystery

Narrative

Nature

Needs

Obsessive

Optimistic

Past

Perfect

Photography

Privilege

Projects

Reality

Rose

Sadness

Single Mom

Tasks

Thinking

Trying

Twilight

Viewers

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Quotes by Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewdson

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.

Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures

I never know what to call the subjects in my pictures because I’m uncomfortable with the word actor. I think maybe subjects might be more accurate – or maybe even more accurate is objects.

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.

I think that, in a sense, there’s something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.

I want to privilege the moment.

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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