Saul Leiter Quotes

There are so many awful things in this world, but I wanted readers to share with me the small, beautiful, enjoyable things. Things like cute clothes, beautiful art and pretty flowers; items that are overflowing with beauty. If you just become obsessed with your own problems, you miss these things. When you discover them, you become happy.

Looking at beautiful things is what makes me the happiest.

Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?

‎There's no way to cheat a sensualist like me, somebody who can die laughing for hours over the pattern of the carpet in a hotel lobby.

It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.

It is the search for beauty...That is what it is. We find ourselves on this earth--gods and men--and we know that it is beautiful. That is one of the few things we understand--beauty; because it is there, in the world, and we can see it all about us. We want beauty. It requires our love. It just does.

Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is what it is. A child in the full health of his mind will put his hand flat on the summer lawn, feel it, and give a little shiver of private glee at the elastic firmness of the globe.

Like pleasure, beauty should be savored and enjoyed

It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.

Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.

You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.

The joy sometimes is in the simple beauty.

Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.

A shaft of sunlight at the end of a dark afternoon, a note of music, and the way the back of a baby’s neck smells if it’s mother keeps it tidy,” answered Henry. “Correct,” said Stuart. “Those are the important things. You forgot one thing, though. Mary Bendix, what did Henry Rackmeyer forget?” “He forgot ice cream with chocolate sauce on it,” said Mary quickly.

The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.

The variety of all things forms a pleasure.

...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew… Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful... and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.

I adore pretty things & witty words.

Every object, every being...is a jar full of delight.

I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

It's really about putting that sort of quality and beauty back into our life.

Practice beauty appreciation in as many places as possible. Nature provides a virtual smorgasbord of miracles. See the beauty in all of it.

I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.