Quotes by Saul Leiter

Saul Leiter

A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.

Art

Beauty

Photography

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

Numbers

Photographer

Views

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

Cameras

Philosophy

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.

Cameras

Looks

Philosophy

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.

Explanation

Photograph

Profound

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 and produce vast amounts of crap that no one cares about. I find it unattractive. I like the Zen artists: they’d do some work, and then they’d stop for a while.

Ambition

Artist

Conquer The World

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 doesn’t have to be in some faraway dreamland in order to find beauty.

Dreamland

Order

Ordinary

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 to some it is an old fashioned idea. Some photographers think that by taking pictures of human misery, they are addressing a serious problem. I do not think that misery is more profound than happiness.

Ideas

School

Thinking

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 how I think I learned to see what others do not see and to react to situations differently. I simply looked at the world, not really prepared for anything.

Being Ignored

Privilege

Thinking

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 with Harper’s Bazaar and other magazines. I was constantly aware that those who hired me would have preferred to work with a star such as Avedon. But it didn’t matter. I had work and I made a living. At the same time, I took my own photographs. Strangely enough, I knew exactly what I wanted and what I liked.

Fashion

Stars

Successful

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Ambition

Art

Artist

Attention

Beauty

Being Ignored

Cameras

Coffee

Confusion

Conquer The World

Dreamland

Enterprise

Explanation

Fashion

Ideas

Important

Interesting

Life Is

Looks

Max

Neglected

Numbers

One Day

Order

Ordinary

Philosophy

Photograph

Photographer

Photography

Privilege

Profound

Real

School

Seeing

Stars

Successful

Taken

Things In Life

Thinking

Very Good

Views

World

Would Be

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Quotes by Saul Leiter

Saul Leiter

A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.

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

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

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.

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.

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 doesn’t have to be in some faraway dreamland in order to find beauty.

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 how I think I learned to see what others do not see and to react to situations differently. I simply looked at the world, not really prepared for anything.

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