"I leave these speculations to others. Itâ€™s quite possible that my work represents a search for beauty in the most prosaic and ordinary places. One doesnâ€™t have to be in some faraway dreamland in order to find beauty."

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Source : "Saul Leiter: The Quiet Iconoclast". Interview with Dean Brierly, photographyinterviews.blogspot.com. April 22, 2009.

Saul Leiter

#Order Quotes #Ordinary Quotes #Dreamland Quotes

“I don't do filler songs. I don't get them. They don't make any sense to me. Why would I literally waste my time on a song that doesn't hold up to the same standards as the other songs on the album? I won't play it live.”

Source : "Your Next Pop Obsession: Betty Who". Interview with Seth Plattner, www.elle.com. August 5, 2013.
“Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.”
“The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I hadn't been here twelve hours and already they loved me.”
“If the Eagles were to get back together, it would have to be for the right reasons. I think it would look awful if it were just for the money.”
“Marriage is like a vacuum cleaner. You stick it to your ear and it sucks out all your energy and ambition.”
“Iâ€™ve never heard that the sexual act requires any particular intelligence. From what Iâ€™ve observed, many stupid people are easily able to produce children.”
“It is. But not as hard as farce.”
“Modern man receives a large part of his knowledge and general education by way of pictorial impressions, illustrations, photographs, films. Daily newspapers bring more pictures from year to year. In addition, the advertising business operates with optical signals as well as representations. Exhibitions and museums are indeed offspring of this visual hustle.”

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