Leonard Baskin Quotes

• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

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

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

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

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• I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading.

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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.

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• 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.

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

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• I always felt I needed to teach to survive.

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

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• Art is man’s distinctly human way of fighting death.

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Leonard Baskin (14)

Birth:	15th August, 1922
Death:	3rd June, 2000
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Artist, Sculptor, Teacher, Writer

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