William Eggleston Quotations

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

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

I like to think that my works flow like music. That may be one reason I work in large groups versus one picture of one thing; it's the flow of the whole series that counts.

Everything must work in concert. Composition is important, but so are many other things, from content to the way colours work with or against each other.

A lot of my friends were mostly working in black-and-white - people like Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and others. We would exchange prints with each other, and they were always very supportive of what I was doing.

I don't think much about the digital world... because I am in the analog world!

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

I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.

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

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 middle of it, which they can identify.