 I always felt I needed to teach to survive. |
| 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. |
| Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable. Topics: Art |
| 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. |
| Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death. Topics: Art |
| I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading. |
| I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money. |
| It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way. |
| But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest. |
| 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. |
| The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it. |
| I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless. |
| Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art. |
| 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. |
