Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might doโitโs ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.
William EgglestonI don't think that has ever changed. I don't think I see any more or any less than I did years ago. Let's say I have the print of a photo taken in the 1960s and one I took a month ago. I think it's pretty difficult to tell any difference, personally.
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 EgglestonOnly the few times I've been to so-called treatment centers, which were a complete waste of money and useless. I didn't know what I was doing at the time, because I was always drunk when I checked in.
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 Eggleston