Leonard Baskin Quotes

#1. Silence is a great companion when words are devoid of meanings.

Nema Al-Araby

#2. I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.

Leonard Baskin

#3. I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. No wine," she said. "It leads to cheese.

Lorrie Moore

#5. I am so tired of the girl in the infirmary, I am so sick of the girl who cries wolf all the time - even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm. Not one of my pleas was ever less than truly urgent because when it's all in your mind, there always IS a wolf.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#6. 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.

Leonard Baskin

#7. What if my becoming fully aware of the frequency of such moments makes me terrified to leave my house?

Edwidge Danticat

#8. The girl danced like light on water. After I'd watched for a while I looked with all of me, not just my eyes, and then I saw the meaning of the dance. I wanted to stop looking because it was so sad, but I couldn't because it was so beautiful.

Glenda Millard

#9. Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

Leonard Baskin

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

Leonard Baskin

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

Leonard Baskin

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

Leonard Baskin

#13. The aim of Zen training is to attain the state of consciousness which occurs when the individual ego is emptied of itself and becomes identified with the infinite reality of all things.

Anne Bancroft

#14. The art schools ... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.

Leonard Baskin

#15. Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.

Leonard Baskin

#16. 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.

Leonard Baskin

#17. It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.

Leonard Baskin

#18. My ideal role would be a baddie in a James Bond film. I think the wheelchair and the computer voice would fit the part.

Stephen Hawking

#19. Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.

Leonard Baskin

#20. 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.

Leonard Baskin

#21. I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

Amy Winehouse

#22. I always felt I needed to teach to survive.

Leonard Baskin

#23. Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

Leonard Baskin

#24. 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.

Leonard Baskin

#25. People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation.

Leonard Baskin

#26. 'If you believe, you can achieve' - that's my motto!

Sophie Turner

#27. Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.

Plato

#28. He who would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those of reason.

Samuel Johnson