Make Work Quotes by Zoe Leonard

I was really poor for most of my adult life.

— Zoe Leonard

I really loved music and went to a lot of clubs to see bands and dance. I loved going out.

— 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.

— 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…

— 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.

— 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…

— Zoe Leonard

I'm in all of my work, and there's nowhere to hide when you make work.

— 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…

— 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…

— Zoe Leonard

By nature, I'm a little distractible. I get very overwhelmed by the world.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Zoe Leonard

I'm always learning. I can't imagine doing anything else.

— 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…

— Zoe Leonard