Zoe Leonard Quotes

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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.

  Zoe Leonard

  Photography, Art, Order

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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.

  Zoe Leonard

  Photography, Mind, Way

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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.

  Zoe Leonard

  Art, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with Molly Prentiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.

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• Progress is always an exchange. We gain something, we give something else up. I'm interested in looking at some of what we are losing.

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  Giving, Progress, Gains

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• Something about photography is tied to a very specific relationship with the material world. It doesn't have to be, but the way I practice it, it is. So there's an act of observation, but it's not an act of objective recording. It's about framing something and seeing it and understanding that it's relational.

  Zoe Leonard

  Photography, Practice, Understanding

  Interview with Molly Prentiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.

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• You need to have your eyes open because it's really scary what's happening.

  Zoe Leonard

  Eye, Scary, Needs

  Interview with Molly Prentiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.

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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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  Interview with Molly Prentiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.

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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

  Art, Talking, Guy

  Interview with Molly Prentiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.

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• Photographers talk about their shoot ratio. Like four to one, six to one, ten to one! Whatever, I'm, like, seven billion to one. It is just ridiculous. But sometimes if you can hit it just right and get everything out of the way, something will resonate on multiple levels.

  Zoe Leonard

  Levels, Four, Ratios

  Interview with Molly Prentiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.

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• I choose to work behind the camera. And I kind of want to make the work and then run away. The presentation of myself really feels complicated for me.

  Zoe Leonard

  Running, Cameras, Want

  Interview with Molly Prentiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.

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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?

  Zoe Leonard

  Numbers, Psychology, World

  Interview with Molly Prentiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.

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• I think making things that appear simple is incredibly hard.

  Zoe Leonard

  Simple, Thinking, Hard

  Interview with Molly Prentiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.

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• Making work for me is being in the world, but it's also being specific about being in the world. I'm interested in this increasingly rare space of contemplation and taking the time and energy to be thoughtful.

  Zoe Leonard

  Thoughtful, Space, Energy

  Interview with Molly Prentiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.

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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.

  Zoe Leonard

  Stuff, Way

  Interview with Molly Prentiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.

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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.

  Zoe Leonard

  Teenager, Lying, Trying

  Interview with Molly Prentiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.

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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.

  Zoe Leonard

  Believe, Excited, Taking Pictures

  Interview with Molly Prentiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.

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• When people look at a photograph, they believe it... My photographs crawl along that edge. I document the world, but from my own biased point of view.

  Zoe Leonard

  Believe, Views, People

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• If the work is the horse, a career makes a great cart.

  Zoe Leonard

  Horse, Careers, Carts

  Interview with Molly Prentiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.

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• I'm always amazed at how people make work no matter how intense the pressure.

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  People, Matter, Pressure

  Interview with Molly Prentiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.

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• I'd grown up poor; I had no idea what it was like to be comfortable.

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  Ideas, Poor, No Idea

  Interview with Molly Prentiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.

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• I was really poor for most of my adult life.

  Zoe Leonard

  Adults, Poor

  Interview with Molly Prentiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.

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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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  War, Generations, Half

  Interview with Molly Prentiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.

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• The career has to support the making and can offer a platform, can offer you a voice in the world. And that's an incredible thing. But it's complicated and seductive and weird and tricky. I think you have to keep figuring that out your whole life.

  Zoe Leonard

  Thinking, Careers, Voice

  Interview with Molly Prentiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.

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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.

  Zoe Leonard

  Past, Desire, Be Here Now

  Interview with Molly Prentiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.

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• After the First World War, it was, like, let's form the League of Nations, we have to learn to work together. It's the only way we're going to survive. And now it's like we're undoing these very fragile institutions that were built after the First and Second World Wars that were about nations working on a kind of global diplomacy for our mutual benefit. And we're undoing them at such rapid-fire pace.

  Zoe Leonard

  War, Mutual Benefit, Fire

  Interview with Molly Prentiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.

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