Allison Stewart Quotes

I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading.

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 there is an element of nihilism about, but I don`t think most artists feel their work is meaningless.

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

I just finished doing a large Holocaust piece, a seated figure over seven feet tall. It`s gigantic. It`s going to Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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.

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.

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

Almost everyone stops being an artist. Most artists don`t become artists. But that`s another discussion. What it takes to be an artist.

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

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.

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

You have to want it overwhelmingly. You have to be an egomaniac. You have to have a little bit of talent. You have to have a massive amount of luck.

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

I always felt I needed to teach to survive.

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.