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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.

— Saul Leiter Saul Leiter (2008)

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I never felt the need to do what everyone else did. And I wasn’t troubled by the fact that other people were doing other things.

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I must admit that I am not a member of the ugly school. I have a great regard for certain notions of beauty even though to some it is an old fashioned idea.

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It’s quite possible that my work represents a search for beauty in the most prosaic and ordinary places. One doesn’t have to be in some faraway dreamland in order to find beauty.

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I don’t plan things. As a rule I prefer to see what happens.

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I don’t have a talent for narcissism.

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