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.

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.

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.

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

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

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