Crewdson Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

Gregory Crewdson

#3. 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

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

Gregory Crewdson

#5. Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

Honore De Balzac

#6. 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

#7. 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.

Gregory Crewdson

#8. Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid.

Tina Weymouth

#9. Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.

Louis Nizer

#10. 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.

Gregory Crewdson

#11. It is really important to have an obsessive need to construct something, to understand something from your own experience.

Gregory Crewdson

#12. Originally, one of the reasons I was drawn to photography, as opposed to painting or sculpture or installation, is that of all the arts it is the most democratic, in so far as it's instantly readable and accessible to our culture. Photography is how we move information back and forth.

Gregory Crewdson

#13. The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. 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

#15. There are two ways to learn anything. An interesting way and a boring way. I like the interesting way.

Deanna Durbin

#16. 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

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

Gregory Crewdson

#18. As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as more of a fever dream.

Damien Chazelle

#19. Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

Dennis Prager

#20. A hero doesn't seek death, but neither does a hero let the possibility of violent death deter resolute action toward the purpose at hand.

Tod Lindberg

#21. Love is a battlefield.

Pat Benatar

#22. The suburban landscape is alien and strange and exotic. I photograph it out of longing and desire. My photographs are also about repression and internal angst.

Gregory Crewdson

#23. All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.

Benjamin Haydon

#24. What the artist attempts to do is to try and tell a story. Attempting to give physical expression to a story that's internal.

Gregory Crewdson

#25. 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.

Gregory Crewdson