Saul Leiter

“My ambition in life was to pay my bills.”

“We had moments where … we had an inability to concentrate on misery properly and a tendency to enjoy life.”

“The street is like a ballet, you never know what is going to happen.”

“…the world is full of endless things and there are many beautiful things around us, and people have a way and a talent for not noticing it, because they’re lazy and because they’re spoilt and because they lack the imagination to see what is around them is actually sometimes very beautiful.”

Saul Leiter (in conversation with Vince Aletti, 2013. Image: Paris, 1959)