Leonardo Drew

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There is the artwork that you physically make but there's also the journey that happens on the inside.
- Leonardo Drew
Collection: Journey
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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
Collection: Artist
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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
Collection: Memories
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The fact is, art is alive. It's moving around. It's alive.
- Leonardo Drew
Collection: Art
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Soap, a cleaning product, can be made from decay.
- Leonardo Drew
Collection: Decay
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The more you touch something, the stronger it becomes.
- Leonardo Drew
Collection: Stronger
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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
Collection: Should Have
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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
Collection: Thinking
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If you are working, almost like with layers of the Grand Canyon, there's history within those layers.
- Leonardo Drew
Collection: Layers
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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
Collection: Artist
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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
Collection: Noses
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If you imagine my studio floor, you can just keep picking it up and getting masterpieces.
- Leonardo Drew
Collection: Imagine