William Eggleston Quotes About Photography

Quotes about: Photography

• I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious effort, nor is it a struggle. Wouldn't do it if it was. The idea of the suffering artist has never appealed to me. Being here is suffering enough.

  William Eggleston

  Photography, Struggle, Artist

  "Out of the ordinary" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2004.

• Photography just gets us out of the house.

  William Eggleston

  Photography, House, Photographer

• 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.

  William Eggleston

  Photography, People, Answers

• I am at war with the obvious.

  William Eggleston

  Photography, War, Photographer

  William Eggleston, Gunilla Knape, Hasselblad Center (1999). “William Eggleston”

• We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller)

  William Eggleston

  Photography, Drinking, House

• I had the attitude that I would work with this present-day material and do the best I could to describe it with photography, not intending to make any particular comment about whether it was good or bad or whether I liked it or not. It was just there, and I was interested in it. That's what I still do today.

  William Eggleston

  Photography, Attitude, Today

  Interview with Harmony Korine, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

• My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown.

  William Eggleston

  Photography, School, Cameras

  Interview with Harmony Korine, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

• Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me.

  William Eggleston

  Photography, Art, Black And White

  Interview with Harmony Korine, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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