Gregory Crewdson Quotes

• 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

  Beauty, Beautiful, Photography

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• 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

  Photography, Time, Everyday

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• Mis fotos son una búsqueda de un momento, un momento perfecto. Para mí, el momento más poderoso de todo el proceso es cuando todo se une y se produce ese instante perfecto, hermoso y quieto. Y en ese instante, mi vida cobra sentido.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Photography

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

  Gregory Crewdson

  Artist, Trying, Tasks

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• No busco deliberadamente algo oscuro, sombrío o desconectado; de hecho, ni siquiera soy consciente de ello en mi trabajo. Siempre intento crear belleza, revelar esperanza, mostrar la sensación de anhelo que existe en el aislamiento y la soledad, y captar la búsqueda de algo más grande dentro de todos mis sujetos.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Beauty, Photography, Hope

  "Creating Photographic Art - Exclusive Interview With Gregory Crewdson". Interview with David Geffin, fstoppers.com. October 11, 2014.

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• 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

  Photography, Art, Light

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• Me encanta esa dinámica entre belleza y tristeza... siempre hay momentos de tranquila alienación, de desconexión, pero también momentos de posibilidad.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Love, Beauty, Sadness

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• 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

  Artist, Expression, Giving

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• 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.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Twilight, Wish, Quality

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• The whole reason I make these pictures is for those moments of clarity. For that single moment, everything seems to make sense in my world. And I think we all look for that in our lives, because our lives are generally filled with chaos and confusion and disorder and complication.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Single Mom, Thinking, Confusion

  Fuente: theamericanreader.com

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• 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

  Photography, Art, Nature

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• Es más probable que el espectador proyecte su propia narrativa en la imagen.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Narrative, Projects, Viewers

  Fuente: theamericanreader.com

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

  Gregory Crewdson

  Important, Needs, Obsessive

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• I'm very moved by the fact that people are drawn into the pictures and that they do bring their own history and their own interpretation to the photograph. I think that's why they work in a certain way.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Pensamiento, Gente, Camino

  Fuente: theamericanreader.com

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• 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

  Fotografía, Recuerdos, Pasado

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• 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

  Answers, Want, Mystery

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• 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

  Photography, Father, Artist

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• If my pictures are about anything at all, I think it's about trying to make a connection in the world. I see them as more optimistic in a certain way. Even though it's very clear there's a level of sadness and disconnection, I think that they're really about trying to make a connection and almost the impossibility of doing so.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Optimistic, Sadness, Thinking

  Fuente: theamericanreader.com

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• 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

  Desire, Landscape, Exotic

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• I want to privilege the moment.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Privilege, Want, Moments

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• En "Crepúsculo", las narraciones son más literales y el acontecimiento mucho más espectacular. Las imágenes de "Bajo las rosas" son mucho más psicológicas y basadas en la realidad.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Twilight, Reality, Rose

  Fuente: theamericanreader.com

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• You have this ambition to make something perfect, exactly right. Of course, necessarily, it fails in some way and you have to accept that for what it is, and then you're on to the next thing.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Ambition, Perfect, Way

  Fuente: theamericanreader.com

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• 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

  Photography, Thinking, Perfect

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• Originalmente, una de las razones por las que me atrajo la fotografía, a diferencia de la pintura, la escultura o la instalación, es que, de todas las artes, es la más democrática, en la medida en que se puede leer al instante y es accesible a nuestra cultura. La fotografía es la forma en que movemos la información de un lado a otro.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Photography, Art, Moving

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• Por mucho que diga que mis fotos son narrativas o que tratan de contar historias, en realidad ocurren muy pocas cosas en ellas. Una de las pocas cosas que siempre digo a la gente en mis fotos es que quiero menos, dame algo menos.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Giving, People, Want

  Fuente: theamericanreader.com

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