“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
“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
“Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.” MightPhotographerDrawingPeculiarAbstraction Author:William Eggleston
“There is no particular reason to search for meaning.” ReasonParticularPhotographerSearch For Meaning Author:William Eggleston
“I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.” WayImportantDemocraticNotionPhotographer Author:William Eggleston
“I want to make a picture that could stand on its own, regardless of what it was a picture of. I've never been a bit interested in the fact that this was a picture of a blues musician or a street corner or something.” WantFactsBitsStreetsMusicianPhotographerCornersStreet CornersBlues Music 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
“You become technically proficient whether you want to or not, the more you take pictures.” WantPhotographer Author:William Eggleston
“We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller)” HouseCommonPhotographyDrinkingPhotographerSmoking Author:William Eggleston
“I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious effort, nor is it a struggle. Wouldn't do it if it was. The idea of the suffering artist has never appealed to me. Being here is suffering enough.” IfsIdeasEnoughHappensDesireArtistSufferingEffortStrugglePhotographyConsciousPhotographerBurningDocumentsEffortlessBurning Desire Author:William Eggleston
“I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. So then that picture is taken and then the next one is waiting somewhere else.” TwoNextWaitingTakenOne ThingPhotographerSomewhere ElseThe Next One Author:William Eggleston
“I am at war with the obvious.” WarPhotographyPhotographerObvious Book:William Eggleston Source: William Eggleston
