I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.
I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading.
Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.
People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation.
But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest.
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.