Saul Leiter Quotes
- I have a deep-seated distrust and even contempt for people who are driven by ambition to conquer the world … those who cannot control themselves…
- I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way. Being ignored is a great privilege. That is…
- In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink…
- 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. One…
- I started out as a fashion photographer. One cannot say that I was successful but there was enough work to keep me busy. I collaborated…
- I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I…
- I must admit that I am not a member of the ugly school. I have a great regard for certain notions of beauty even though…
- Seeing is a neglected enterprise.
- 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.
- There are the things that are out in the open and then there are the things that are hidden, and life has more to do,…
- The important thing in life is not what you get, but what you throw out.
- Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.
- I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera.
- A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person,