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 EgglestonThere'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.
William EgglestonIt was something new that was happening everywhere. You couldn't miss it. If you needed to go to the grocery you would go to the predecessors of the big supermarkets of today.
William EgglestonWhether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might doโitโs ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.
William EgglestonIt quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.
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