It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.
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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.Leonard Baskin
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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Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.
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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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I always felt I needed to teach to survive.
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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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