Saul Quotes

A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.

The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

Try to reach for a simple, visual phrase that tells you what the picture is all about and evokes the essence of the story

I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.

Design is thinking made visual.

True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.

Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.

They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.

Control healthcare and you control the people

Failure is built into creativity... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure.

Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

Never let a crisis go to waste

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.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

You know, whenever I was presented with a challenge that brought up feelings of fear or self-doubt, I almost always said, 'Yes'.

I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.

The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something

Logos are a graphic extension of the internal realities of a company.

There are the things that are out in the open and then there are the things that are hidden, and life has more to do, the real world has more to do with what is hidden, maybe. You think?

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

The important thing in life is not what you get, but what you throw out.

Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.

Seeing is a neglected enterprise.

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

Have you ever thought that radical ideas threaten institutions, then become institutions, and in turn reject radical ideas which threaten institutions?

I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera.

I often think that presentations are more difficult than the work itself.

Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each other's errors ... Only a sailor can set them straight.

I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

My real name's McGill. The Jew thing I just do for the homeboys. They all want a pipe-hitting member of the tribe, so to speak.

Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise

When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it, all of a sudden we discover something that we start seeing. I like this confusion.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

History is a relay of revolutions.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

I think that the heart is a lot like those wonderful fruit, like coconut and mangoes, you know, you have to break the skin, you have to break it open to get to the good part.

If I'm lucky, in a month from now, best-case scenario, I'm managing a Cinnabon in Omaha.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

The establishment can accept being screwed, but not being laughed at

The fourth rule is: "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules." You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.

If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.

Whether or not you believe in God, you can probably sign on to the idea that being kind to others is divine. Just remember to include yourself in that circle of kindness.

It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.