And what we called photojournalism, the photos seen in places like Life magazine, didn't interest me either. They were just not good-there was no art there. The first person who I respected immensely was Henri Cartier-Bresson. I still do.
I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important. - William Eggleston
I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.
- William Eggleston
Generally, that's what happens-a fundamental rotting of the idea. They woke up with the wrong idea. It's just like music: If you don't have an innate… - William Eggleston
Generally, that's what happens-a fundamental rotting of the idea. They woke up with the wrong idea. It's just like music: If you don't have an innate…
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. - 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.
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 … - 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 …
I am at war with the obvious. - William Eggleston
I am at war with the obvious.
You can take a good picture of anything. A bad one, too. - William Eggleston
You can take a good picture of anything. A bad one, too.
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 informa… - 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 informa…
There is no particular reason to search for meaning. - William Eggleston
There is no particular reason to search for meaning.
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… - William Eggleston
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…
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