In nicey-nicey land, you must be happy-clappy and positive all the time - bad news is taboo. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I see a lot of my children. They're around the house all the time on the farm, you know. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
There are moments when great music can be the greatest service and charity. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
It is difficult to imagine any time in history when so many people claiming to be so free have lived in so… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
We may lose our memory as we get older, but this might not be such a bad thing - who wants to… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
How many times have I heard people say, 'I became very ill a couple of years ago; it got very serious, and… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I think we live in delusional times, whether it's with a great ability to totally distract ourselves with technology, or with speed… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Life seems sadly mishandled by humans, as if it's all too much for them - they spend so much time and energy… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
The scariness of manhood to males may be symbolically seen in the many stories of indigenous Australian boys who ran away and… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Perhaps the more benign and poetic sense of God is established when we are babies in the moments of primal joy we… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
In my journey as a cartoonist, I seem to have accidentally stumbled into all sorts of traps, damnations and blacklists. — Michael Leunig Copy Share
There are only two feelings, Love and fear: There are only two languages, Love and fear: There are only two activities, Love and fear:… — Michael Leunig Copy Share
If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary… — Michael Leunig Copy Share
Socialised humanity represses nature and degrades human nature; it takes life and waters it down - probably to control it - diluting existence with… — Michael Leunig Copy Share
I became a cartoonist because I'd sort of failed at everything else, really. I mean, it was by default. — Michael Leunig Copy Share
I never really understood who the Magi were as a child. What is a Magi? Not a word I would use, but a magpie… — Michael Leunig Copy Share
God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And sinks within a minute.… — Michael Leunig Copy Share
There can be many reasons to travel, but wandering into the world for no particular reason is a sublime madness, which in all its… — Michael Leunig Copy Share
Life seems sadly mishandled by humans, as if it's all too much for them - they spend so much time and energy hurting each… — Michael Leunig Copy Share
If you know anything about ducks, you know a baby duck will imprint itself on you. It misses its mother. — Michael Leunig Copy Share
I think melancholy is part of the natural condition, you know. Anyway, I think it's the artist's function to have their melancholy and not… — Michael Leunig Copy Share
At last, after completing year 12, I failed the great final examination, repeated the following year and failed again even more dismally than before.… — Michael Leunig Copy Share
