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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.

— 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.

Saul Leiter: The Quiet Iconoclast (2009)

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.

Saul Leiter: The Quiet Iconoclast (2009)

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

Saul Leiter: The Quiet Iconoclast (2009)

I don’t have a talent for narcissism.

Saul Leiter: The Quiet Iconoclast (2009)

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 (2008)

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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