Leonardo Drew Quotes

• There is the artwork that you physically make but there's also the journey that happens on the inside.

  Leonardo Drew

  Journey, Artwork, Happens

  Wall Street International Magazine interview, wsimag.com. January 12, 2015.

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• You know that you don't have all the answers, and the unknown is the best place where you would want to be as an artist, not knowing. That actually leads you to ask questions, and it continuously feeds itself.

  Leonardo Drew

  Artist, Knowing, Answers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I started making work, and it's like, yes you are calling out all of these things that are part of your memory, your body's memory, things that have gone through your pores, what you've seen, what you've experienced, and you spill them out without thinking. I don't think so much about, "Okay, I'm going to make work, and it's going to be about this." It's just going to come out.

  Leonardo Drew

  Memories, Thinking, Gone

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The fact is, art is alive. It's moving around. It's alive.

  Leonardo Drew

  Art, Moving, Alive

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Soap, a cleaning product, can be made from decay.

  Leonardo Drew

  Decay, Soap, Cleaning

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The more you touch something, the stronger it becomes.

  Leonardo Drew

  Stronger

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Why should you be bogged down with my titles and how I thought about it and my poetic reasoning? No, that's not necessary. Either you're going to be drawn into it [or not]. It's a black hole; gravity should pull you in and you should have that experience.

  Leonardo Drew

  Should Have, Black, Titles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The longer they hang out, the deeper the history, the richer the life. If you use that as a template or as a way of realizing things, then I don't think you can go wrong.

  Leonardo Drew

  Thinking, Use, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you are working, almost like with layers of the Grand Canyon, there's history within those layers.

  Leonardo Drew

  Layers, Canyons, Grand Canyon

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It should be not only a synergy, but a complicity between the viewer and the artist, and so I'm wide open to that.

  Leonardo Drew

  Artist, Should, Synergy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That's the position I place myself in always. I don't know. It says follow me. It pulls you right through, just by the nose.

  Leonardo Drew

  Noses, Follow Me, Position

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you imagine my studio floor, you can just keep picking it up and getting masterpieces.

  Leonardo Drew

  Imagine, Masterpiece, Studios

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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