{"id":12351,"date":"2013-10-28T08:18:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T12:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=12351"},"modified":"2013-10-28T08:18:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T12:18:42","slug":"19-quotes-by-photographer-william-eggleston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/12351\/19-quotes-by-photographer-william-eggleston\/","title":{"rendered":"19 Quotes By Photographer William Eggleston"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nHere’s a selection of quotes by phot0grapher William Eggleston<\/a>.
\n“I am at war with the obvious.” – William Eggelston
\n“You can take a good picture of anything. A bad one, too.” – William Eggelston
\n“I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.” – William Eggelston
\n“It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.” – William Eggelston
\n” Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it\u2019s just about impossible to follow up with words. They don\u2019t have anything to do with each other.” – William Eggelston
\n“I want to make a picture that could stand on its own, regardless of what it was a picture of. I\u2019ve never been a bit interested in the fact that this was a picture of a blues musician or a street corner or something. ” – William Eggelston
\n“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 Eggelston
\n“I don\u2019t have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It\u2019s not a conscious effort, nor is it a struggle. Wouldn\u2019t do it if it was. The idea of the suffering artist has never appealed to me. Being here is suffering enough.” – William Eggelston
\n“There is no particular reason to search for meaning.” – William Eggelston
\n“A picture is what it is and I\u2019ve never noticed that it helps to talk about them, or answer specific questions about them, much less volunteer information in words. It wouldn\u2019t 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\u2019re right there, whatever they are.” – William Eggelston
\n“I never know beforehand. Until I see it. It just happens all at once. I take a picture very quickly and instantly forget about it.” – William Eggelston
\n” I don\u2019t really look at other people\u2019s photographs at all. It takes enough time to look at my own.” – William Eggelston
\n” I don\u2019t have favorites. I look at pictures democratically. To me they are all equal. ” – William Eggelston
\n” I just wait until [my subject] appears, which is often where I happen to be. Might be something right across the street. Might be something on down the road. And I\u2019m usually very pleased when I get the image back. It\u2019s usually exactly what I saw. I don\u2019t have any favorites. Every picture is equal but different.” – William Eggelston
\n“I am afraid that there are more people than I can imagine who can go no further than appreciating a picture that is a rectangle with an object in the middle of it, which they can identify. ” – William Eggelston
\n“I\u2019ve always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and they\u2019re still interesting to me as pictures. If you turn a picture that\u2019s not well organized upside down, it won\u2019t work.” – William Eggelston
\n“Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do\u2014it\u2019s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.” – William Eggelston
\n“You become technically proficient whether you want to or not, the more you take pictures.” – William Eggelston
\n“Photography just gets us out of the house.” – William Eggelston
\nRead more Photographer’s Quotes here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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