Conquer the world Quotes by Saul Leiter

I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own.

— Saul Leiter

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

I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera.

— Saul Leiter

Seeing is a neglected enterprise.

— Saul Leiter

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

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

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

Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.

— Saul Leiter

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

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

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

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