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 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 EgglestonAnd what we called photojournalism, the photos seen in places like Life magazine, didn't interest me either. They were just not good-there was no art there. The first person who I respected immensely was Henri Cartier-Bresson. I still do.
William EgglestonIโve always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and theyโre still interesting to me as pictures. If you turn a picture thatโs not well organized upside down, it wonโt work.
William EgglestonUnfortunately they're practically all dead. And many were my closest associates: friends, co-directors, whatever you want to say - my partners in crime.
William EgglestonI quite frequently don't look through the camera, which is very close to being blind.
William Eggleston