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I never heard the term art world until I was in my thirties, and I was like, What are you guys talking about? It's the world, and we all live in the world!
Zoe Leonard
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Zoe Leonard
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 1
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There's a desire for me in the work, even when I'm looking at the past, to be looking from the present. It's to be here now. It's looking in the present tense.
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I like getting stuff out of the way so you can see something clearly, see it sharply, have it be new again.
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I don't think any of us thought Donald Trump could get this far.
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We're all busy. It's a very fast-paced world. And art - and by that, I mean culture in a wider sense - is one of the few spaces where we're allowed to look and think without an immediate response or reaction.
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I'm always learning. I can't imagine doing anything else.
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I'm in all of my work, and there's nowhere to hide when you make work.
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I don't quite understand how a generation and a half after the Second World War we've gotten where we are now.
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The world feels overwhelming to me on every level. Just the number of organisms that live on this planet. Our politics, our violence, psychology, emotions there's just a lot going on, right?
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I've been taking pictures since I was probably 16. I'm 54, and I can't believe how excited I am.
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I'm always amazed at how people make work no matter how intense the pressure.
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If the work is the horse, a career makes a great cart.
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I'd grown up poor I had no idea what it was like to be comfortable.
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There's a lot of psychological material that you inherit from your family.
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What attracts me in photography is not so much a fine arts approach, but rather photographs as documents... All the ways in which human beings have documented the world in an attempt to order it, in an attempt to consume it or rule it or hang on to it in some sense.
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What I've always liked about photography is that it's such a direct way of showing what's on my mind. I see something. I show it to you.
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You need to have your eyes open because it's really scary what's happening.
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I grew up in Harlem, but I moved to the Lower East Side when I was a teenager and it was ... I feel like when I try to describe it, it doesn't sound believable. It just sounds like you're lying. And I see it on the faces of my younger friends.
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I really loved music and went to a lot of clubs to see bands and dance. I loved going out.
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I'll finish a body of work and think, Okay, I got nothing. That was it. I'm done. And then you'll turn a corner and be like, Oh my God! And it keeps happening. I feel so lucky.
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I think making things that appear simple is incredibly hard.
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