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

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

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

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

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

I always felt I needed to teach to survive.