The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we're still also driven by… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Easter is not limited to the passion and death of Christ; it also includes the dismal tragedy of life unlived by 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
When people talk about their God, it is difficult to know what they actually mean, and when people talk about their atheism,… — 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
It is known that wildfires behave unpredictably - this is fundamental - but it is my experience that humans in the presence… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
As a child, I heard many warnings from teachers about the perils of talking with strangers. Yet now, fairly late in my… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I don't think I have spiritual beliefs in the structured sense - but I believe in the absolute necessity of spirit and… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I must warn you right here and now that I am a 'wet leftie,' a 'leftist' and also a member of the… — 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
