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

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

I always felt I needed to teach to survive.

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.

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

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