Leonard Baskin Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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