William Eggleston Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I think polo players are at their best in their 30s. You've got the talent and the experience. You play with your head - you learn to lose and how to win.
-
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
-
Sentences are not as such either true or false.
-
Don't be afraid of who sits in the White House. God can triumph over Trump.
-
You can't regulate a soul into a business.
-
I use Pinterest for everything. Book collections, trips, hobbies. It's all there. I planned my wedding on it. When I had a kid, I planned all his stuff on it. So it was nice to discover that I wasn't the only one.
-
Your shoes have to match your belt. That's rule number one for guys. You can't put the brown shoes with the black belt. Or a brown belt with a black wristwatch. Just don't do it! Also, I don't like boots with suits. And when you wear sneakers, make sure they go with your shirt.
-
We don't think much about the up and down of the public market.
-
I just try to see what happens when you put your feet on the accelerator.
-
Recently I saw Kasparov and he looked to me as still young and potent champion.
-
Tater-vine growin’ w’ile you sleep.
-
I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very often I'm doing one thing when I'm thought to be doing another.
-
I’m no part time dilettante photographer, unlike the bartenders, shoe salesmen, floorwalkers plumbers, barbers, grocery clerks and chiropractors whose great hobby is their camera. All their friends rave about what wonderful pictures they take. If they’re so good, why don’t they take pictures full—time, for a living, and make floor walking, chiropractics, etc., their hobby? But everyone wants to play it safe. They’re afraid to give up their pay checks and their security they might miss a meal.
-
There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it’s the photographer who has to be candid, not the camera.
-
I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.
-
Great photography is always on the edge of failure.
-
I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.
-
Well, I'm not going to get into that. I think that those kind of distinctions and lists of titles like "street photographer" are so stupid. I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.
-
...innocence of eye has a quality of its own. It means to see as a child sees, with freshness and acknowledgment of the wonder; it also means to see as an adult sees who has gone full circle and once again sees as a child - with freshness and an even deeper sense of wonder.
-
who knows what life is, for life is a secret.
-
Everyone wants to escape, everyone's drawn to escapism to leave their lives for an hour or two, and we're all so curious as human beings.
-
He will be able to get them if he lives long enough to do it. He was always a diplomat.
-
You can take a good picture of anything. A bad one, too.
