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.
William EgglestonI don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot.
William EgglestonI've also never had favorite pictures. Or subjects. I have this discipline of treating everything equally-I used to say "democratically."
William EgglestonHalf voluntarily, half Winston's older brother [William] would take me in, saying, "Daddy, I think you oughta do this." And I'd say, "I think you're right, maybe I do need it." Sometimes a week later I'd leave the place; sometimes I'd stick it out for a month.
William EgglestonA 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 information in words. It wouldn't make any sense to explain them. Kind of diminishes them. People always want to know when something was taken, where it was taken, and, God knows, why it was taken. It gets really ridiculous. I mean, they're right there, whatever they are.
William EgglestonI 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 the experience of seeing at one time in your life, then you would know what it was like and be able to function. I've said this before, I think I could really photograph blind if I had to.
William Eggleston