You become technically proficient whether you want to or not, the more you take pictures. — 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
You want to make the photograph work in every way possible. Doesn't matter where it is in the world. — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
I don't think about what camera I should use that much. I just pick up the one that looks nicest on the… — 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 want to make a picture that could stand on its own, regardless of what it was a picture of. I've never… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
I am afraid that there are more people than I can imagine who can go no further than appreciating a picture that… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason. — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. So then that picture is taken and then the next… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
A lot of my friends were mostly working in black-and-white-people like Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and others. We would exchange… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
And what we called photojournalism, the photos seen in places like Life magazine, didn't interest me either. They were just not good-there… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
I’ve always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and they’re… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by… — 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… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
I don't think that has ever changed. I don't think I see any more or any less than I did years ago.… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
I work very quickly. I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
A picture is what it is and I've never noticed that it helps to talk about them, or answer specific questions about… — 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
![“I’ve always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and they’re still interesting to me as pictures. If you turn a picture that’s not well organized upside down, it won’t work.” quote by William Eggleston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/973/william-eggleston-12373_abstract_i-ve-always-assumed-that-the-abstract-qu_2362279.jpg)
