Zoe Buckman Quotes

"One thing to remember is that human beings connect through vulnerability. That's our core way of connecting."

"Our consciousness wants to connect through struggle and even pain. So in a funny sort of way, vulnerability is attractive."

"My journey with grief, with learning how to grow through it, rather than get over it, will be a lifelong one."

"I don't think that you have to always present as angry, masculine, aggressive to be a feminist."

"I thought having to explain the risibility of gender codes would be mostly behind us by now."

"There's a real lack of basic understanding of the female body and the reproductive system."

"As artists we need to stop making work only for gallery or museum walls, or the coffee tables of collectors."

"I don't like putting the female form behind glass or on a wall, further objectifying it as much as art does."

"It's so difficult as a female artist to make actual money, in my experience."

"My work is always on display, and my life is always on display when I make my work."

"I'm hoping to raise a little consciousness and shine some light on the idea of responsibility."

"It wasn't until I became a mother that I started to refer to myself as an artist as opposed to a fine art photographer."

"I'm someone who lives with the work of artists I've been lucky enough to know or trade with."

"Boxing was really cathartic for me."

"It was super-important to me that I would be able to make work out of my home."

"I cook a lot more now that my studio is in my home."

"I was obsessed with American hip-hop as a teenager."

"I have been drawn to India since I was a kid."

"Well, I don't like shooting in bathrooms. They're small and cramped and you've got harsh surfaces and it's difficult."