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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I have been told that some of my photographs maybe indicate that I am a painter. Saul Leiter Read Quote
My family was very unhappy about my becoming a photographer – profoundly and deeply unhappy. Saul Leiter Read Quote
I like the Zen artists: they’d do some work, and then they’d stop for a while. Saul Leiter Read Quote
I’m sometimes mystified by people who keep diaries. I never thought of my existence as being that important. Saul Leiter Read Quote
