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“We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller)” quote by William Eggleston — Download Open image

“We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller)”

William Eggleston

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

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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…

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

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Unfortunately they're practically all dead. And many were my closest associates: friends, co-directors, whatever you want to say - my partners in crime.

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

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I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.

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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…

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

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