Leonard Baskin Quotes
15 Leonard Baskin quotes:
"But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest."
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"I always felt I needed to teach to survive."
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"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."
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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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"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."
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"I just finished doing a large Holocaust piece, a seated figure over seven feet tall. It's gigantic. It's going to Ann Arbor, Michigan."
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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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"Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art."
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"You have to want it overwhelmingly. You have to be an egomaniac. You have to have a little bit of talent. You have to have a massive amount of luck."
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"Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable."
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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 don't have really as much as they should."
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"Almost everyone stops being an artist. Most artists don't become artists. But that's another discussion. What it takes to be an artist."
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"I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money."
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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 an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist."
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