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

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.

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.

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.

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

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