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

I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.

But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest.

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

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.

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.