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.

I always felt I needed to teach to survive.

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

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.

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

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

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