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

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

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

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.

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

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.