25 Quotes by Leonard Baskin

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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