I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera. I look into the camera and take pictures. My photographs are the tiniest part of what I see that could be photographed. They are fragments of endless possibilities. — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own. — Saul Leiter Copy Share
I started out as a fashion photographer. One cannot say that I was successful but there was enough work to keep me busy. I… — Saul Leiter Copy Share
If I’d only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn’t have had to do all the thousands of others. — Saul Leiter Copy Share
Max Kozloff said to me one day, ‘You’re not really a photographer. You do photography, but you do it for your own purposes –… — Saul Leiter Copy Share
I have a deep-seated distrust and even contempt for people who are driven by ambition to conquer the world … those who cannot control… — Saul Leiter Copy Share
Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to. — Saul Leiter Copy Share
When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it,… — Saul Leiter Copy Share
I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what… — Saul Leiter Copy Share
In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to… — Saul Leiter Copy Share
I leave these speculations to others. It’s quite possible that my work represents a search for beauty in the most prosaic and ordinary places.… — Saul Leiter Copy Share
I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera. I look into the camera and take pictures. My photographs are the tiniest part of… — Saul Leiter Copy Share
There are the things that are out in the open and then there are the things that are hidden, and life has more to… — Saul Leiter Copy Share
