Crewdson Photography Quotes & Sayings

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

I think any time someone's dreams are crushed, there's the people who can fight to still try and fulfill those dreams and then there's the people who just give up. — Constance Zimmer

A product for everyone rarely reaches much of anyone. — Seth Godin

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

There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity. — Natalie Goldberg

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

A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa. — Lawrence M. Krauss

Mobile is the perfect example of what is enabling economic growth in the technology sector. — Max Levchin

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

Within the whispers of love, I found my heart. Within a glimmer from a ray, I found my soul. Within both, I found myself. — Raneem Kayyali

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