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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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