William Eggleston Quotes
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William Eggleston Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
I don't think about what camera I should use that much. I just pick up the one that looks nicest on the day.
Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do - it's ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.
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.
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.
It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.
I've also never had favorite pictures. Or subjects. I have this discipline of treating everything equally-I used to say "democratically."
My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown.
I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more important or less important.
Unfortunately they're practically all dead. And many were my closest associates: friends, co-directors, whatever you want to say-my partners in crime.
We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller)
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.