Michael Leunig

Humanity hungers for the uncommon.

— Michael Leunig

Don't give in to hate - it puts you off balance

— Michael Leunig

I was a reflective child.

— Michael Leunig

Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.

— Michael Leunig

Darkness is full of possibility.

— Michael Leunig

Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.

— Michael Leunig

I've learned to respect the whimsical.

— Michael Leunig

There is some suffering that awaits us all.

— Michael Leunig

My children just want to get at the world; it is so pleasantly surprising to witness that.

— Michael Leunig

Every child is a greedy child, I think. I mean, it's healthy to be a greedy child.

— Michael Leunig

The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.

— Michael Leunig

Love one another and you will be happy. Its as simple and as difficult as that.

— Michael Leunig

I never had a spirit-breaking, soul-destroying religion drummed into me.

— Michael Leunig

Have I got the right to experiment with my child's life?

— Michael Leunig

Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.

— Michael Leunig

Emotional stability has not been America's gift to the world.

— Michael Leunig

Out of economic hardship can come change - we are suddenly cast onto our wits and our talents and our resources and…

— Michael Leunig

Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view.

— Michael Leunig

You wouldn't wish hardship on anyone, but when it comes, you would be crazy not to see the huge growth that will…

— Michael Leunig

As we grow, we lift our gaze higher and higher, and then sometimes we are brought to our knees, but all is…

— Michael Leunig

We may lose our memory as we get older, but this might not be such a bad thing - who wants to…

— Michael Leunig

Any cartoon that can be liked by a committee is really not worth drawing; in fact, must not be drawn at all!…

— Michael Leunig

Many people first encounter Jesus during childhood when they are suddenly confronted by a horrifying statue of a man nailed to a…

— Michael Leunig

People seem to take as much offence as they possibly can these days - it's almost a new type of greed, a…

— Michael Leunig

In some ways, calm bodily protest has a nakedness to it that may be deeply embarrassing for observers; an act not unlike…

— Michael Leunig

What a magical thing is the bed, and what a vulnerable, innocent creature is the sleeping human - the human who never…

— Michael Leunig

Citizens, regardless of their political inclinations, carry a devout sense of their shared culture and its temperament - and, having contributed to…

— Michael Leunig

Like normal people, leftists now have to get up in the morning and earn a living, seeing as the fascists have come…

— Michael Leunig

At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature. Just to…

— Michael Leunig

There's a particular sensitivity required to be an artist, and a certain vulnerability, perhaps, and also, somewhere between, you're in your body…

— Michael Leunig

Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting on a…

— Michael Leunig

I don't think I have spiritual beliefs in the structured sense - but I believe in the absolute necessity of spirit and…

— Michael Leunig

“We struggle, we grow weary, we grow tired. We are exhausted, we are distressed, we despair. We give up, we fall down,…

— Michael Leunig

If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by…

— Michael Leunig

Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is the the…

— Michael Leunig

I had a few ducks as a kid.

— Michael Leunig

A world view is probably an expression of self.

— Michael Leunig

“Each day is a lifetime.”

— Michael Leunig

“Life is offensive and refuses to apologise”

— Michael Leunig

Integrity is an ecosystem.

— Michael Leunig