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Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something.


Saul Leiter

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SAUL BELLOW I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our...
SAUL BELLOW In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries
SAUL BELLOW If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
SAUL BELLOW With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - some...
SAUL BELLOW There is something terribly nervous-making about a modern existence. For one thing, it's all the thi...
SAUL BELLOW I'm an American, Chicago born.
SAUL BELLOW Any artist should be grateful for a naïve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaboratel...
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