William eggleston

I'm not particular. I don't have favourite pictures.

I like to think that my works flow like music. That may be one reason I work in large groups versus one picture of one thing; it's the flow of the whole series that counts.

I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more important or less important.

A lot of my friends were mostly working in black-and-white - people like Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and others. We would exchange prints with each other, and they were always very...

I work very quickly. I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two.

I don't think much about the digital world... because I am in the analog world!

Everything must work in concert. Composition is important, but so are many other things, from content to the way colours work with or against each other.

You want to make the photograph work in every way possible. Doesn't matter where it is in the world.