A picture is what it is and I've never noticed that it helps to talk about them, or answer specific questions about them, much less volunteer information in words. It wouldn't make any sense to explain them. Kind of diminishes… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
I like to think that my works flow like music. That may be one reason I work in large groups versus one picture of… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
I don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot. — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
I had the attitude that I would work with this present-day material and do the best I could to describe it with photography, not… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
Generally, that's what happens-a fundamental rotting of the idea. They woke up with the wrong idea. It's just like music: If you don't have… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
I knew it was happening, but I never paid much attention to it . . . just to the passage of time. Something new… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
You become technically proficient whether you want to or not, the more you take pictures. — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
Unfortunately they're practically all dead. And many were my closest associates: friends, co-directors, whatever you want to say - my partners in crime. — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important. — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color. — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
The immediate reviews were very hostile, but they didn't bother me-I had the attitude that I was right. The poor guys who were critics… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
Only the few times I've been to so-called treatment centers, which were a complete waste of money and useless. I didn't know what I… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
I quite frequently don't look through the camera, which is very close to being blind. — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
