Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Murk can be described as an enfeebled fog with a personality disorder; it is more troubled than ethereal, sulking moodily over our… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Democracy just isn't working any more; without sanity at its heart, it is becoming a most unique and fiendish tyranny. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
At the age of nine, I simultaneously fell in love with two Dutch sisters because they seemed so beautifully strange, and their… — 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
Perhaps life is actually more confusing and unknowable to an adult than a child, but grown-ups have learned to deceive themselves and… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
So few humans seem to fully exist themselves that I wonder if all this endless speculation and haggling about God is really… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
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
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
In some ways, calm bodily protest has a nakedness to it that may be deeply embarrassing for observers; an act not unlike… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
What a magical thing is the bed, and what a vulnerable, innocent creature is the sleeping human - the human who never… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose… — 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
