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Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me.
- William Eggleston
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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
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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 supportive of what I was doing.
- William Eggleston
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I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.
- William Eggleston
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You want to make the photograph work in every way possible. Doesn't matter where it is in the world.
- William Eggleston
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Something new always slowly changes right in front of your eyes - it just happens.
- William Eggleston
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I'm not particular. I don't have favourite pictures.
- William Eggleston
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I work very quickly. I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two.
- William Eggleston
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I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more important or less important.
- William Eggleston
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