To live in the midst of suffering, which we do, we do, amid distress, and to keep some equilibrium in the midst… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
All good art is seditious, but the people in authority can never recognise it. I think when you mention sedition, artists are… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
What really irks me is the snide victimizing suggestion from some that I have tried to be lighthearted and funny... Oh my… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul'… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
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
I don't like to brag, but I must tell you that I am regarded in some circles as being in the upper… — 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 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
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
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
I give thanks for the fact that I can get this stick with a bit of steel nib on the end, dip… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
To be a pleasant person, you would at least need to see the point of being a pleasant person, or have it… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I have sometimes done cartoons that are hurtful to people - immature, spiteful stuff. Some are so self-indulgent, and some have just… — 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
What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, escaping from the drabness and oppressiveness… — 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
