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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

Not me," you think. — Ryan Holiday

I don't know if I'm supposed to say this, but probably not ... I was a really cynical child. — Nikki Reed

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

Journalism is organized gossip. — Edward 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

I felt betrayed and deceived, and I feared I'd never get to be a William Eggleston character. — Tiffanie DeBartolo

There is no particular reason to search for meaning. — William Eggleston

I am at war with the obvious. — William Eggleston

My influences were Woody Allen and Lenny Bruce. — David Steinberg

It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason. — 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

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 work very quickly. I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. — William Eggleston

People have a way of thinking that everything is finished when the very best of all may yet be in store. — Ethel M. Dell

I'm not particular. I don't have favourite 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

Something new always slowly changes right in front of your eyes - it just happens. — William Eggleston

Don't just live life, live for it!! — T.M. Marie

The storyteller is one who comes bearing a great and lasting gift. — Edward Eggleston

It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life. — Anton Chekhov

You want to make the photograph work in every way possible. Doesn't matter where it is in the world. — William Eggleston

I thought Jimi Hendrix ... was just phenomenal. — Carl Wilson

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

It's a vain hope to believe that people will voluntarily turn their back on government subsidies. — James Cook

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. — Edward 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

When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it. — Paige Craig

I've also never had favorite pictures. Or subjects. I have this discipline of treating everything equally-I used to say "democratically." — William Eggleston

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. — Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

I like to photograph democratically. — William Eggleston

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

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