30 Quotes by Saul Leiter

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 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.

Seeing is a neglected enterprise.

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.

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

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 real world has more to do with what is hidden, maybe. You think?

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

When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it, all of a sudden we discover something that we start seeing. I like this confusion.