Leonard Baskin

“My work, I have always felt, is an affirmation of life, and I think that's what all art is.”

“An artist is a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook into the subconscious.”

“I think that the artist is a peculiar and special kind of human being, a person who is privileged to be able to live with his obsession.”

“The human figure is the only fit subject for art.”

“There is no substitute for drawing.”

“Vanity is the most difficult of all sins to confess.”

“Art is man's affirmation of his own sanity.”

“The act of making a print is a process of discovery.”

“The blank sheet of paper is the most formidable opponent I have ever faced.”

“All art is protest.”

“The woodcut, for me, is the most direct of all the graphic media.”

“Our human scale is hopelessly disparate with the scale of the universe, and our lives are but a fleeting moment.”