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 expressive body is not literal; it's very primal, and that's what I feel when I make the best of my work.… — 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
Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know. — 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
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
Try as I do to comprehend the human project and my part in it, I am further than ever from understanding the… — 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
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
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 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
