Top 46 Leiter's Quotes
#1. The content of Saul Leiter's photographs arrives on a sort of delay: it takes a moment after the first glance to know what the picture is about. You don't so much see the image as let it dissolve into your consciousness, like a tablet in a glass of water.
Teju Cole
#2. I have been told that some of my photographs maybe indicate that I am a painter.
Saul Leiter
#3. Announcers don't do enough of the cat-and-mouse strategy and all the work that goes into it. You watch a broadcast and guys get the pitches wrong.
Al Leiter
#4. 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.
Saul Leiter
#5. When I am listening to Vivaldi or Japanese music or making spaghetti at 3 in the morning and realize that I don't have the proper sauce for it, fame is of no use.
Saul Leiter
#6. But I'm still not 100% convinced that Roger Clemens took steroids. I'm not.
Al Leiter
#7. We're not going to have a perfect batting average and it's important that Americans understand that.
Michael Leiter
#8. For seven years, I was in this fishbowl with this intensity, with all the stuff that went on with the Mets.
Al Leiter
#9. It's a very big mental game, all day leading up to warm-ups. You're not sure if your curveball will break, or will you be able to throw it over the plate? It's all negative thoughts going into the game.
Al Leiter
#10. 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.
Saul Leiter
#11. I don't think bulk data collection was an enormous factor here, because generally, that deals with overseas calls to the United States. But what bulk data collection did was make the process more efficient. So there were no silver bullets there.
Michael Leiter
#12. 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
#13. ISIS, in some cases like Paris, may actually try to direct. But what it's really trying to do is inspire. So its directed activities are these inspired attacks.
Michael Leiter
#14. In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music, and to paint when I feel like it.
Saul Leiter
#15. You put deadlines on people you really don't want, because that's how you feel about them.
Al Leiter
#16. My father thought photography was done by lowlifes.
Saul Leiter
#17. 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.
Saul Leiter
#18. I look at this as a second life. Every game feels like an event. Every pitch matters. I need that. It elevates your aggressiveness.
Al Leiter
#19. My family was very unhappy about my becoming a photographer - profoundly and deeply unhappy.
Saul Leiter
#20. Sometimes I'm amazed by how much you can do as a photographer.
Saul Leiter
#21. Bond swallowed. He looked over towards Vesper. Felix Leiter was again standing beside her. He grinned slightly and Bond smiled back and raised his hand from the table in a small gesture of benediction.
Ian Fleming
#22. I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way.
Saul Leiter
#23. 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 Leiter
#24. Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something.
Saul Leiter
#25. 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.
Saul Leiter
#26. Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.
Saul Leiter
#27. 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.
Saul Leiter
#28. I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own.
Saul Leiter
#30. I like the Zen artists: they'd do some work, and then they'd stop for a while.
Saul Leiter
#31. The important thing in life is not what you get, but what you throw out.
Saul Leiter
#32. The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.
Al Leiter
#33. I've never been overwhelmed with a desire to become famous. It's not that I didn't want to have my work appreciated, but for some reason - maybe it's because my father disapproved of almost everything I did - in some secret place in my being was a desire to avoid success.
Saul Leiter
#34. I love the game very much, but when you were a certain type of player for a few years, being a front-end starter, that's the way I still think I can pitch. But the body tells you no.
Al Leiter
#35. Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.
Al Leiter
#36. What makes anyone think that I'm any good?
Saul Leiter
#37. A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.
Saul Leiter
#38. When you do have really tapped out resources that cover so many investigations, it can help you move through and discard some faster.
Michael Leiter
#39. I'm sometimes mystified by people who keep diaries. I never thought of my existence as being that important.
Saul Leiter
#40. I think the World Cup is going to be bigger than what a lot of people are anticipating. At this stage in my career, when there is an opportunity, albeit a small one, of being on the team, what a great way to possibly end my career.
Al Leiter
#41. I like starting. It's pretty cool.
Al Leiter
#42. 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.
Saul Leiter
#43. My brothers were rabbis. My grandfather was a rabbi.
Saul Leiter
#44. I did not want to leave the Mets and I did not want to leave New York.
Al Leiter
#45. The Church in contemporary America does not need more strategies, steps, or keys to the Christian life. The Church needs truth, and more specifically, the great foundational truths of historical Christianity.
Charles Leiter
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