Art comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.
Abstract Art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the the utterly bewildered.
Leonard Baskin's statement of his artistic credo: "Our human frame, our gutted mansion, our enveloping sack of beef and ash is yet a glory. Glorious in defining our universal sodality and in defining our utter uniqueness. The human figure is the image of all men and of one man. It contains all and can express all.