“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.” ThinkingNeedsKindProblemCertainNextPerfectFailingPhotographyTensionImpossibility Author:Gregory Crewdson
“Aesthetics does not exist for the camera as an isolated entity. Aesthetics, in fact, is inseparable from the purpose of the photographer and the use he makes of his theme. When photography fails... it is usually because a false separation has been imposed on form and content.” DoeHas BeensFactsUseFormPurposeFailingPhotographyCamerasPhotographerSeparationThemeIsolatedEntityAestheticsInseparable Author:Sid Grossman
“Poetry is my first love. Photography often fails to look into things. It looks at things. Poetry is so much more truthful.” FirstsLooksFailingPhotographyPoetry IsTruthfulFirst LovePhotography Love Author:Larry Towell
“Perhaps why so much of today's photography doesn't grab us or mean anything to our personal lives is that it fails to touch upon the hidden life of the imagination and fantasy, which is hungry for stimulation.” MeanTodayLife IsImaginationFantasyFailingPhotographyHungryPersonal LifeStimulation Author:Arthur Tress