Leonard Baskin Quotes

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

  Leonard Baskin

  Art, Fighting, Men

  "Jacques Lipchitz: The Artist at Work". Book by Bert Van Bork, p. 189, 1966.

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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.

  Leonard Baskin

  Meaningful, School, Drawing

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

  Leonard Baskin

  People, Who Cares, Fringe

  Leonard Baskin, Alan M. Fern (1970). “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 money.

  Leonard Baskin

  Anxiety, Survival, Making Money

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• I always felt I needed to teach to survive.

  Leonard Baskin

  Teach, Needed, Felt

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• Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

  Leonard Baskin

  Art, Pops, Modernism

  1965 In Publisher's Weekly, 5 Apr. See Wilde 909:22.

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

  Leonard Baskin

  Architecture, Should, Dedicated

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

  Leonard Baskin

  Years, Holocaust, Fifty

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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.

  Leonard Baskin

  Artist, Thinking, Nihilism

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• But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest.

  Leonard Baskin

  Thinking, Doctors, Honest

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

  Leonard Baskin

  Art, Design, Would Be

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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.

  Leonard Baskin

  Communication, Hard Work, Thinking

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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.

  Leonard Baskin

  Attitude, Thinking, Roots

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• I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading.

  Leonard Baskin

  Leadership, Thinking, People

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

  Leonard Baskin

  Education, Art, Believe

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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.

  Leonard Baskin

  Art, Thinking, Self

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