“I am afraid that there are more people than I can imagine who can go no further than appreciating a picture that is a rectangle with an object in the middle of it, which they can identify.” PeopleI CanImagineMiddleObjectsAppreciatePhotographerRectangles Author:William Eggleston
“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 them. People always want to know when something was taken, where it was taken, and, God knows, why it was taken. It gets really ridiculous. I mean, they're right there, whatever they are.” PeopleKnowsWantKindMeanHelpingAnswersTakenInformationPhotographerRidiculousVolunteerDiminishGod KnowsGet Real Author:William Eggleston
“Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me.” PeopleArtBlackInterestWhitePhotographyPhotographLandscapeBlack And WhiteArt PhotographyBlack And White Photography Author:William Eggleston
“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 prints with each other, and they were always very supportive of what I was doing. What each of us was doing photographically was entirely different, but we were basically coming from the same place, sort of like a club.” PeopleDifferentBlackWhiteMy FriendsClubsPrintBlack And WhiteSupportive Author:William Eggleston
“Many people one meets in life somehow think they know you simply because they're hanging out at the same counter-but they really don't know a thing about you.” PeopleThinkingKnowsHanging Out Author:William Eggleston
“Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.” PeopleHardTodayAsksAnswersPhotographyCome UpHard Questions Author:William Eggleston
