"Our human frame, our gutted mansion, our enveloping sack of beef and ash is yet a glory. The human figure is the image of all men and of one man. It contains all and it can express all."
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Leonard Baskin, quoted in "Art: The Monumentalist" Time Magazine (January 18, 1960).
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Leonard Baskin
(August 15, 1922 – June 3, 2000) was an American sculptor, illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher.
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