Leonard Baskin Quotes

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

Art, Death, Human

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

Honest, Either, Dishonest

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

Felt, Teach, Survive

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

Money, Making, Anxiety

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

Work, Hard, Touch

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

Life, Attitude, Chance

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

Leaders, Express, Leading

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

Work, Artists, Element

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

Deal, Took, Literary

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

Art, Design, Used

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

Art, Pop, Raised

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

Art, Young, Kids

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

Change, Time, Long

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

Art, Artist, Expression

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: 1922

Died: 2000

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