Avoided Quote by 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 I do.”

Saul Leiter

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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.

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Max Kozloff said to me one day, ‘You’re not really a photographer. You do photography, but you do it for your own purposes –…

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I have a deep-seated distrust and even contempt for people who are driven by ambition to conquer the world … those who cannot control…

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

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When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it,…

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In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to…

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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.…

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The important thing in life is not what you get, but what you throw out.

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