"I never thought of the urban environment as isolating. I leave these speculations to others. 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. I realize that the search for beauty is not highly popular these days. Agony, misery and wretchedness, now these are worth perusing."

“I didn’t try to communicate any kind of philosophy since I am not a philosopher. I am a photographer. That’s it.”

“18 photographs by Saul Leiter”

“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.”

“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.”

“'Coffee and conversation with photographer Saul Leiter' by Visual Productions NYC”

“Saul Leiter : Early Black and White" in L’Oeil de la Photographie”