My children just want to get at the world; it is so pleasantly surprising to witness that. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
All the world loves a young emerging artist, and sometimes it seems that all the world wants to be one - on… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
The world is philosophically booby-trapped; touch an interesting subject, and it just might blow up in your face. Some say it's better… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy - the… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
The repression of virtuous instinct in the modern world is an incremental tragedy. Repress one instinct, and you repress many; other parts… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
The child who has no need to feign empirical knowledge about life can wonder and fantasise with great ease. The world is… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
While the world may feel entitled and have the power to pronounce an individual crazy, are there times when the innocent genius,… — 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
If the nose has become a deeply disillusioned and grief-stricken organ in the modern world, then what of the ear? The poor… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Sweetheart,' 'darling,' 'luv.' I like these words; they fit me like a comfortable old pullover. I remember them from childhood; that's what… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
There can be many reasons to travel, but wandering into the world for no particular reason is a sublime madness, which in… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Is a brazen and innocent confrontation with paternal authority an unbearably terrifying prospect to some? Are the consequences of a fathers anger… — 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
