Leonard Baskin Quotes

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Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

Leonard Baskin

There's a tremendous tendency not to make a statement, not to be committed in that ultimate sense. Photo-realism is the same thing as minimal abstraction. Both are unwilling to say anything about the nature of reality, about their own involvement with reality, the evolvement of forms, their expressive... their deepest involvement with human reality.

Leonard Baskin

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

Leonard Baskin

Leonard Baskin

Leonard Baskin

Born: August 15, 1922

Died: June 3, 2000 (aged 77)

Bio: Leonard Baskin was an American sculptor, illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher.

Known for:

Hosie's Alphabet (1972)
Ten Times Better (2000)
Animals that ought to be (1996)
A book of flies real or otherwise (1999)

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