At last, after completing year 12, I failed the great final examination, repeated the following year and failed again even more dismally… — 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
As a child, I dreamed that my bed could fly and glide and swoop and hover high over the countryside near my… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
There are moments when great music can be the greatest service and charity. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
In my adolescence, I think I felt very outcast; I felt lonely. I felt great loneliness, and sometimes I wouldn't partake in… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness:… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
As a cartoonist, I am not interested in defending the dominant, the powerful, the well-resourced and the well-armed because such groups are… — 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
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
Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I became a cartoonist because I'd sort of failed at everything else, really. I mean, it was by default. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
