William Eggleston Quotes

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.

If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.

Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two-dimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sans-serifs, and geometrics; which abstracts, transforms, translates, rotates, dilates, repeats, mirrors, groups, and regroups, is not good design if it is irrelevant.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.

Every form is a base for colour, every colour is the attribute of a form.

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.

What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color.

Design, whether it's on your body or in your home, is the same thing. It's mixing different colors, different textures, and unexpected patterns - elements that you wouldn't often put together in an interesting way.

Behrens had a great sense of the great form. that was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him.

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

As an artist, as I design and lay out a page, the less-important things, things I want you to spend less time looking at, I draw them very small, maybe even silhouette them. The more-important pivotal scenes, I draw them larger, maybe even a double-page spread.

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

Anything written or printed under a print or picture takes the attention from it and, if it is very black or white in any marked degree, will utterly destroy its beauty.

Beauty is only about relationships. Nothing is beautiful on its own.

Don't confuse symmetry with balance.

The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

Dimension regulated the general scale of the work, so that the parts may all tell and be effective.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify, and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity.

I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.