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 thi…

- Gregory Crewdson

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 thi…

- 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 ma…

- 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

- Gregory Crewdson

I don't deliberately look for something dark or bleak or disconnected, in fact that's not something I'm even conscious of in the work as I'm making i…

- Gregory Crewdson

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 a…

- 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 irrat…

- Gregory Crewdson

The viewer is more likely to project their own narrative onto the picture.

- Gregory Crewdson

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

- Gregory Crewdson