“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.” IfsWellsStillsI CanTurnsInterestingQualityDown AndPhotographerPhotographObviousInstanceAbstractOrganizedUpside Down 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
“I think with being blind the one thing you would have going is that you could still feel things, see your way around so to speak. And if you had had the experience of seeing at one time in your life, then you would know what it was like and be able to function. I've said this before, I think I could really photograph blind if I had to.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayFeelsSaidStillsAbleSpeakSeeingOne ThingFunctionBlindPhotographOne Time Author:William Eggleston
“Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with each other.” ImpossiblePhotographFollow Up Author:William Eggleston
“I don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot.” KnowsLooksMy OwnStudyPhotograph Author:William Eggleston
