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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.
— 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 quite frequently don't look through the camera, which is very close to being blind.
— William Eggleston
You can take a good picture of anything. A bad one, too.
— William Eggleston
I don't think about what camera I should use that much. I just pick up the one that looks nicest on the day.
— William Eggleston
If I'm painting, I paint every day. I'll be up in the studio from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night.
— John Mellencamp
I felt betrayed and deceived, and I feared I'd never get to be a William Eggleston character.
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown.
— William Eggleston
Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.
— Anton Chekhov
Something new always slowly changes right in front of your eyes - it just happens.
— William Eggleston
You become technically proficient whether you want to or not, the more you take pictures.
— 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.
— William Eggleston
I'm not particular. I don't have favourite pictures.
— William Eggleston
I work very quickly. I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two.
— 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.
— William Eggleston
I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work.
— William Eggleston
It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.
— William Eggleston
There is no particular reason to search for meaning.
— William Eggleston
I've also never had favorite pictures. Or subjects. I have this discipline of treating everything equally-I used to say "democratically."
— William Eggleston
The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.
— Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
I am at war with the obvious.
— William Eggleston
You want to make the photograph work in every way possible. Doesn't matter where it is in the world.
— William Eggleston
I like to photograph democratically.
— William Eggleston
Trying to balance chivalry with equality, I always open a door for a Lady ... then stick my foot out
— Josh Stern
I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more important or less important.
— 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
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
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.
— William Eggleston
I've never written jokes. I mean, I'll write things on a piece of paper and riff on them onstage.
— David Cross
Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.
— George Bernard Shaw
I don't think much about the digital world ... because I am in the analog world!
— William Eggleston
Photography just gets us out of the house.
— William Eggleston