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"I've always thought photography is like a joke, if you have to explain it it means it didn't turn out well"
(Ansel Adams)
“Photography is the art of showing how many ephemeral moments life is made up off”
(Marcel Proust)
“make beautiful images. Let other people argue about which box to put your work into, or which label to apply. You don't have to explain yourself”
(Sean Tucker)
“I played yhird base, I knew about the kind of movement that puts you in the right spot at the right time. It was energy in the service of the moment, a moment that was unrepeatable and evanescent, and to me this new idea was called photography”
(Joel Meyerowitz)
"A window covered with raindrops fascinates me a hundred times more than the portrait of a famous person"
(Saul Leiter)
“I find it strange that anyone would believe that the only thing that matters is black and white. it's just idiotic. the history of art is the history of color. the cave paintings had color...”
(Saul Leiter)
“Everything is a photo...we live in a world today where almost everything is a photograph”
(Saul Leiter)
“I have a great respect for people who do nothing”
(Saul Leiter)
“i spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way. Being ignored is a great privilege”
(Saul Leiter)