William Eggleston's Guide: 5-7 sentences on photography in general.

Page 5: "We are accustomed to believing that the meaning in a work of art is due altogether to the imagination and lederdemain of the artist."

Page 6: "Photography is a system of visual editing.  At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's cone vision, while standing in the right place at the right time."

Page 6: "By means of photography one can in a minute reject as unsatisfactory ninety-nine configurations of facts and elect as right the hundredth."

Page 7: "...That a photographer wants form, an unarguably right relationship of shapes, a visual stability in which all components are equally important."

Page 8: "For the photographer who demanded formal rigor for his pictures, color was an enormous complication of a problem already cruelly difficult.  And not merely a complication, for the new medium meant that the syntax the photographer had learned-the pattern of his educated intuitions-was perhaps worse than useless, for it led him toward the discovery of black-and-white photographs."