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.
Saul LeiterI 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 LeiterI 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.
Saul Leiter