Leonard Baskin Quotes
"I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money."
- Leonard Baskin
(Related: Money, Survival, Anxiety)
"But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest."
- Leonard Baskin
(Related: Doctors)
"I always felt I needed to teach to survive."
- 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, long time. Schools are beginning to teach drawing again in a serious and meaningful way."
- Leonard Baskin
(Related: Change, Time, Beginning, Interest, Now, Schools, World)
"The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it."
- Leonard Baskin
(Related: Art, Kids, Schools)
"Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art."
- Leonard Baskin
(Related: Art, Design, Now)
"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."
- Leonard Baskin
(Related: Art, Artist, Expression, Self, World)
"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."
- Leonard Baskin
(Related: Work, People)
"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."
- Leonard Baskin
(Related: Life, Attitude, Possibility, Anxiety, Bombs, Chance, Inequality)
"It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way."
- Leonard Baskin
(Related: Literary, Years)
"I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading."
- Leonard Baskin
(Related: People, Leaders, Leading)
"I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless."
- Leonard Baskin
(Related: Work, Artists, Nihilism)
"Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable."
- Leonard Baskin
(Related: Art)