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Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death,
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Leonard Baskin
#Art
#Fighting
#Men
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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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Leonard Baskin
#Meaningful
#School
#Drawing
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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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Leonard Baskin
#Anxiety
#Survival
#Term
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But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest.
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Leonard Baskin
#Thinking
#Doctors
#Honest
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I always felt I needed to teach to survive.
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Leonard Baskin
#Teach
#Needed
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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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Leonard Baskin
#Communication
#Hard Work
#Thinking
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I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading.
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Leonard Baskin
#Leadership
#Thinking
#People
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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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Leonard Baskin
#Artist
#Thinking
#Nihilism
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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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Leonard Baskin
#Art
#Design
#Would Be
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Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.
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Leonard Baskin
#Art
#Pops
#Modernism
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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.
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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.
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Leonard Baskin
#Art
#Thinking
#Self
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People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation.
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Leonard Baskin
#People
#Who Cares
#Fringe
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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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Leonard Baskin
#Years
#Holocaust
#Fifty
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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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Leonard Baskin
#Attitude
#Thinking
#Roots
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Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.
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Leonard Baskin
#Architecture
#Should
#Dedicated
