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Leonard Baskin quotes

American Artist

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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
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
Leonard Baskin quote: "Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death."
Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death. Leonard Baskin
Leonard Baskin quote: "The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and..."
The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it. 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
Leonard Baskin quote: "I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't..."
I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless. 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
Leonard Baskin quote: "I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of..."
I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money. Leonard Baskin
Leonard Baskin quote: "Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design..."
Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art. Leonard Baskin
Leonard Baskin quote: "Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable."
Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable. Leonard Baskin
Leonard Baskin quote: "I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are..."
I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading. Leonard Baskin
Leonard Baskin quote: "But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest."
But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest. Leonard Baskin
Leonard Baskin quote: "I always felt I needed to teach to survive."
I always felt I needed to teach to survive. Leonard Baskin
Leonard Baskin quote: "It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And..."
It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way. Leonard Baskin

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