25 Quotes by Leonard Baskin

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

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

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

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

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

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

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

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

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.