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

You can take a good picture of anything. A bad one, too.

- 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 …

- William Eggleston

I am at war with the obvious.

- 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.

- 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…

- 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…

- William Eggleston

There is no particular reason to search for meaning.

- William Eggleston