Artist Quotes by Leonard Baskin

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

— 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,…

— Leonard Baskin

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

— 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…

— 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

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

— Leonard Baskin

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

— Leonard Baskin

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

— Leonard Baskin

I always felt I needed to teach to survive.

— 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

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…

— Leonard Baskin

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

— Leonard Baskin

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

— 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…

— Leonard Baskin

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

— Leonard Baskin