--- title: "1 Clearly Sharply Quotes By Zoe Leonard" description: "1 Clearly Sharply quotes by Zoe Leonard. Plus more from Zoe Leonard and more Clearly Sharply sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2d/zoe-leonard-19708_stuff_i-like-getting-stuff-out-of-the-way-so-y_1996414.jpg" --- > [I like getting stuff out of the way so you can see something clearly, see it sharply, have it be new again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zoe-leonard/i-like-getting-stuff-out-of-the-way-so-you-can-see-something-clearly/) [Zoe Leonard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zoe-leonard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2d/zoe-leonard-19708_stuff_i-like-getting-stuff-out-of-the-way-so-y_1996414.jpg) ## More by Zoe Leonard > [I was really poor for most of my adult life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zoe-leonard/i-was-really-poor-for-most-of-my-adult-life/) [Zoe Leonard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zoe-leonard/) > [I really loved music and went to a lot of clubs to see bands and dance. I loved going out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zoe-leonard/i-really-loved-music-and-went-to-a-lot-of-clubs-to-see-bands-and/) [Zoe Leonard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zoe-leonard/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zoe-leonard/progress-is-always-an-exchange-we-gain-something-we-give-something/) [Zoe Leonard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zoe-leonard/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zoe-leonard/there-s-a-desire-for-me-in-the-work-even-when-i-m-looking-at-the-past/) [Zoe Leonard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zoe-leonard/) > [I don't quite understand how a generation and a half after the Second World War we've gotten where we are now.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zoe-leonard/i-don-t-quite-understand-how-a-generation-and-a-half-after-the-second/) [Zoe Leonard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zoe-leonard/) > [I choose to work behind the camera. And I kind of want to make the work and then run away. The presentation of myself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zoe-leonard/i-choose-to-work-behind-the-camera-and-i-kind-of-want-to-make-the/) [Zoe Leonard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zoe-leonard/) > [I'm in all of my work, and there's nowhere to hide when you make work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zoe-leonard/i-m-in-all-of-my-work-and-there-s-nowhere-to-hide-when-you-make-work/) [Zoe Leonard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zoe-leonard/) > [I grew up in Harlem, but I moved to the Lower East Side when I was a teenager and it was ... I feel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zoe-leonard/i-grew-up-in-harlem-but-i-moved-to-the-lower-east-side-when-i-was-a/) [Zoe Leonard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zoe-leonard/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zoe-leonard/after-the-first-world-war-it-was-like-let-s-form-the-league-of/) [Zoe Leonard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zoe-leonard/) > [By nature, I'm a little distractible. I get very overwhelmed by the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zoe-leonard/by-nature-i-m-a-little-distractible-i-get-very-overwhelmed-by-the/) [Zoe Leonard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zoe-leonard/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zoe-leonard/photographers-talk-about-their-shoot-ratio-like-four-to-one-six-to/) [Zoe Leonard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zoe-leonard/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zoe-leonard/something-about-photography-is-tied-to-a-very-specific-relationship/) [Zoe Leonard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zoe-leonard/) > [What attracts me in photography is not so much a fine arts approach, but rather photographs as documents... All the ways in which human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zoe-leonard/what-attracts-me-in-photography-is-not-so-much-a-fine-arts-approach/) [Zoe Leonard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zoe-leonard/) > [I'm always learning. I can't imagine doing anything else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zoe-leonard/i-m-always-learning-i-can-t-imagine-doing-anything-else/) [Zoe Leonard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zoe-leonard/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zoe-leonard/making-work-for-me-is-being-in-the-world-but-it-s-also-being-specific/) [Zoe Leonard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zoe-leonard/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/clearly-sharply/zoe-leonard/#itemlist", "name": "1 Clearly Sharply Quotes By Zoe Leonard", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I like getting stuff out of the way so you can see something clearly, see it sharply, have it be new again.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Zoe Leonard" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zoe-leonard/i-like-getting-stuff-out-of-the-way-so-you-can-see-something-clearly/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2d/zoe-leonard-19708_stuff_i-like-getting-stuff-out-of-the-way-so-y_1996414.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2d/zoe-leonard-19708_stuff_i-like-getting-stuff-out-of-the-way-so-y_1996414.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2d/zoe-leonard-19708_stuff_i-like-getting-stuff-out-of-the-way-so-y_1996414.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I like getting stuff out of the way so you can see something clearly, see it sharply, have it be new again.” — Zoe Leonard", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/clearly-sharply/zoe-leonard/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/clearly-sharply/zoe-leonard/", "name": "Clearly Sharply Quotes by Zoe Leonard", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/clearly-sharply/zoe-leonard/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2d/zoe-leonard-19708_stuff_i-like-getting-stuff-out-of-the-way-so-y_1996414.jpg" }, "description": "1 Clearly Sharply quotes by Zoe Leonard. 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