Saul Leiter Quotes

You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you're like an immigrant to your own world. You don't have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.

He's very nice. He's something I replied. She considered this zipping her purse shut. Then she said Well everyone is. Everyone is Something. For some reason that stuck with me simple and yet not every since she'd said it. It was like a puzzle as well two vague words with one clear one between them.

I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me - you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them.

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

I just go out and try to make sense of the world around me.

I don't really know about the art world.

Art is always kind of snooping and listening in.

The more I see, the less I know.

You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.

Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.

Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open.