Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience. William Eggleston More Quotes by William Eggleston More Quotes From William Eggleston I would play music every day from the time I was about 4 or 5 years old. Every time I would go from one end of the house to the other, I would pass the piano and play a few notes. William Eggleston piano play years Unfortunately they're practically all dead. And many were my closest associates: friends, co-directors, whatever you want to say - my partners in crime. William Eggleston crime want directors I don't think that has ever changed. I don't think I see any more or any less than I did years ago. Let's say I have the print of a photo taken in the 1960s and one I took a month ago. I think it's pretty difficult to tell any difference, personally. William Eggleston taken years thinking I like to photograph democratically. William Eggleston photograph They put it in a blender and make a smoothie and drink it over one or two hours. William Eggleston us I work very quickly. I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. William Eggleston picture only never work I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more important or less important. William Eggleston looking nothing important way You want to make the photograph work in every way possible. Doesn't matter where it is in the world. William Eggleston you work way world I don't think much about the digital world... because I am in the analog world! William Eggleston i-am think digital world I'm not particular. I don't have favourite pictures. William Eggleston pictures favourite particular 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. William Eggleston everything important work way 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. William Eggleston picture think music work
