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Gregory Crewdson Quotes: I was really fixated when I was a child. Again my mother was just talking to me about this, about how I would how try to get details exactly right. I guess I was always very persistent.
         

I was really fixated when I was a child. Again my mother was just talking to me about this, about how I would how try to get details exactly right. I guess I was always very persistent.


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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.



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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



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.

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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

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



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

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



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



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.

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.



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.

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.





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