"Works of art produced in the contemporary world……" — 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."
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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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Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death,
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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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