Saul Leiter Quotes

An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.

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

To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.

The question is not what you look at – but how you look & whether you see.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Photographs don't 'reveal' much at all but instead help us generate a kind of visual vocabulary that we can use to make sense of the world and direct our attention to certain things around us. In other words, they help us learn how to see.

It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.

You wish to see; listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.

Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.

The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

Seeing is a gift that comes with practice.

One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.

I've always been able to see you," I say. "It's a rather lovely view.

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.

To see is to think, and to think is to see.

You see, but you do not observe.

It might be good to open our eyes and see.

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

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

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

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.