Leonard Baskin Thinking Quotations

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.

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.

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

But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest.

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.

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.