"Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting…" — Leonard Baskin
"Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death,"
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15 Quotes by Leonard Baskin
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I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of…
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I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs,…
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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…
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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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People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation.
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Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is…
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The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit…
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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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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 if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they…
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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