Saul Leiter Quotes

Max Kozloff said to me one day, ‘You’re not really a photographer. You do photography, but you do it for your own purposes – your purposes are not the same as others’. I’m not quite sure what he meant, but I like that. I like the way he put it.

Saul Leiter

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• Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Art
  • Comeback
  • Ever

• I will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.

  

  Oscar Taveras
  • Job
  • Try
  • Field

• A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Guy
  • Woman
  • Laugh

• The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Nature
  • Opinion

• I remember playing on pretty much an all-minority youth team and going to some of the tournaments north of Cincinnati and not being able to stay with host families where all the other teams were staying with host families.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Remember
  • Pretty
  • Team

• In high school, I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a speech teacher asked me to audition for this play, and I got the lead.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • School
  • High
  • College

• What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew, Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew?

  

  Ben Jonson
  • April

• I'm constantly falling deeper in love with my wife.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Wife

• It's easy to point out the evil in other people, but that can be found in all of us. That selfishness, that is something we all have in us. Sometimes you are successful at dealing with it, and sometimes you are not.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • People
  • Evil

• My father, he really encouraged me to really get into acting. He loved it so much, and he taught all the basics.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Father

• In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

  

  Anthony J. D'Angelo
  • Time

• Why am I a closet country music fan? Because I grew up being into rock, and I always thought that country music was, like, something my mom was into. Like, it wasn't cool. It wasn't happening. They were all singing about driving around in their trucks looking for Lulu.

  

  David Zabel
  • Up
  • Music
  • Country

• Every single one of us who has been a 'Woman in Film' for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase 'Women in Film.'

  

  Lynda Obst
  • Women
  • Single
  • Sick

• I dropped out of school and I never took acting classes.

  

  Alice Englert
  • School

• I think, for many teens, a fundamental fact of the teenage experience is that you're in between this childlike state, in which you're told you're completely unqualified for just about anything in the adult world, and this adult world, where you're being told you have to be responsible, and you're just trying to figure out where you stand.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • World
  • Trying
  • Experience

• To me, it's so much about doing your homework, going into a situation, getting to know the subject, making them feel comfortable, getting intimate access, getting access to all different aspects of people's lives, so that I am essentially telling an entire story and not just a single one.

  

  Lynsey Addario
  • People
  • Different
  • Single

• I never knew what a reporter looked like.

  

  Dwayne Andreas

• Parents don't believe that lifting life-chances in one school means reducing them in another.

  

  David Blunkett
  • Life
  • Believe
  • School

• You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.

  

  John Ortberg

• Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be measured out at any time.

  

  Pieter Zeeman
  • Time
  • Photography

• In the final analysis, photography... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun.

  

  Abigail Solomon-Godeau
  • Photography
  • Final
  • Hireling

• Television's so quick, and there's so many other fun elements to it, but you don't get such good scripts and the time to really make much more three dimensional characters.

  

  Lydia Leonard
  • Time
  • Good
  • Fun

• Max Kozloff said to me one day, ‘You’re not really a photographer. You do photography, but you do it for your own purposes – your purposes are not the same as others’. I’m not quite sure what he meant, but I like that. I like the way he put it.

  

  Saul Leiter
  • Photography
  • Photographer
  • Purposes