Leonard Baskin
Leonard Baskin
Leonard Baskinwas an American sculptor, illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth15 August 1922
CountryUnited States of America
architecture should dedicated
Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.
american-artist amount bit massive
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.
almost american-artist artists stops takes
Almost everyone stops being an artist. Most artists don't become artists. But that's another discussion. What it takes to be an artist.
american-artist feet figure finished holocaust large seated seven
I just finished doing a large Holocaust piece, a seated figure over seven feet tall. It's gigantic. It's going to Ann Arbor, Michigan.
attitude thinking roots
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.
years holocaust fifty
It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.
people care fringe
People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation.
art thinking self
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.
education art believe
The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.
art pops modernism
Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.
art design would-be
Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.
thinking artist nihilism
I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.
leadership thinking people
I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading.
communication hard-work thinking
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.