30 Quotes by 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. One doesn’t have to be in some faraway dreamland in order to find beauty.

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

I may be old-fashioned. But I believe there is such a thing as a search for beauty - a delight in the nice things in the world. And I don't think one should have to apologise for it.

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

Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something.

I like it when one is not certain what one sees. 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.

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.

There are the things that are out in the open, and there are the things that are hidden. The real world has more to do with what is hidden.

I am not immersed in self-admiration.