A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.
From Saul Leiter
I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way.
Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something.
There are the things that are out in the open, and there are the things that are hidden. The real world has more to do with what is hidden.
I have been told that some of my photographs maybe indicate that I am a painter.
My brothers were rabbis. My grandfather was a rabbi.
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.
I'm sometimes mystified by people who keep diaries. I never thought of my existence as being that important.
I like the Zen artists: they'd do some work, and then they'd stop for a while.
In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music, and to paint when I feel like it.
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