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Leonard Baskin

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

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

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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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"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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"Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art."
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"Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable."
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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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"It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way."
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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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"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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"Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death."
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