Somewhere else Quotes by William Eggleston

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

I don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot.

— William Eggleston

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

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

I knew it was happening, but I never paid much attention to it . . . just to the passage of time. Something new…

— William Eggleston

You become technically proficient whether you want to or not, the more you take pictures.

— William Eggleston

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

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.

— William Eggleston

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

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

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

I quite frequently don't look through the camera, which is very close to being blind.

— William Eggleston