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


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



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



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The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.



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.

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.



Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.



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

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



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.

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.



I always felt I needed to teach to survive.

I always felt I needed to teach to survive.





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