Leonard Baskin Quotes & Sayings

There is, however, a change going on in the world. There's far more interest in drawing now than there has been in a long, long time. Schools are beginning to teach drawing again in a serious and meaningful way. — Leonard Baskin

I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should. — Leonard Baskin

It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way. — Leonard Baskin

I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money. — Leonard Baskin

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death. — Leonard Baskin

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist. — Leonard Baskin

People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation. — Leonard Baskin

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable. — Leonard Baskin

The art schools ... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it. — Leonard Baskin

I always felt I needed to teach to survive. — Leonard Baskin

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art. — Leonard Baskin

But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest. — Leonard Baskin

I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life ... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive. — Leonard Baskin

I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading. — Leonard Baskin

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless. — Leonard Baskin

Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in. — Leonard Baskin