Top 14 Quotes by 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.

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.

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

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

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

I always felt I needed to teach to survive.

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

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

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

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