76 Quotes by William Eggleston

The immediate reviews were very hostile, but they didn't bother me-I had the attitude that I was right. The poor guys who were critics just didn't understand the works at all. I was sorry about that, but it didn't weigh on my mind a bit.

Well, probably the best way to put it might be that at some time, not just in an instant, but over some period of time I became aware of the fact that I wanted to document examples like Kroger or Piggly Wiggly in the late '50s, early '60s.

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

Many people one meets in life somehow think they know you simply because they're hanging out at the same counter-but they really don't know a thing about you.

There's plenty of film out there, and quadrillions of cameras that use film-I don't think it makes much sense not to use it. The thing that's going out is the manufacturing of the paper. Incidentally, all these years my wife has told me that I'm color-blind.

I quite frequently don't look through the camera, which is very close to being blind.

Unfortunately they're practically all dead. And many were my closest associates: friends, co-directors, whatever you want to say-my partners in crime.

I have some that I have become a well-known-even infamous-client of, mostly in Memphis. But a great deal of that is legend and doesn't have anything to do with truth.