“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.” InspirationalStillsWholeMomentsTogetherBeautifulProcessPerfectPowerfulLife PhilosophyPhotographyMake SenseInstantMeaning Of LifeMost PowerfulMoments In TimePerfect MomentsBeautiful Moments Author:Gregory Crewdson
“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.” WishInterestQualityConditionsCircumstancesOrdinaryNarrativePoeticFascinatedTwilightMy Wish Author:Gregory Crewdson
“I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire” ArtDesireFearNatureAnxietyPhotographyMetaphorPsychologicalLandscapeSurrogatesIconographyAmerican Landscape Author:Gregory Crewdson
“Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures” TryingStoriesArtistImpossibleTasksDifficulty Author:Gregory Crewdson
“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” WantFeelsMomentsTimeEffectsPhotographyEverydayRevelationsRoutineIrrationalEveryday LifeTheatricalMoments In TimeSmall Moments Author:Gregory Crewdson
“For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.” UseJourneyMathematicsMapsExecutionVoyages Author:Christopher Columbus
“I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.” ThinkingPastMemoriesChildhoodPhotographyAssociates Author: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.” FirstsEnoughBeautifulFearBeautyAnxietyPhotographyStriveEdgesIsolationConveyingAmerican Landscape Author:Gregory Crewdson
“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.” LoveMomentsBeautySadnessPossibilityQuietSensesAlienationDynamicsDisconnectedDynamismDisconnection Author:Gregory Crewdson
“I actually had to get two fillings. Yeah, I swear. My teeth had been bugging me because I had been eating so much junk food on the road. I was the worst on teh team because I always had a bag of candy with me. I never had any cavities before, but yesterday, I took two for the team.” TwoTeamWorstEatingYeahYesterdayTeethBagsSwearCandyFillingJunkJunk Food Author:Tisha Venturini