I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. So then that picture is taken and then the next one is waiting somewhere else.
William EgglestonYou become technically proficient whether you want to or not, the more you take pictures.
William EgglestonOften 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 EgglestonI don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot.
William EgglestonI 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