If you know anything about ducks, you know a baby duck will imprint itself on you. It misses its mother. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I think melancholy is part of the natural condition, you know. Anyway, I think it's the artist's function to have their melancholy… — 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
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
I see a lot of my children. They're around the house all the time on the farm, you know. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
We may lose our memory as we get older, but this might not be such a bad thing - who wants to… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Pre-Christmas is very important, and it is stressful, and, you know, even in the biblical story... travelling on the donkey in a… — 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 always loved contemporary dance, but it has always been a bit of a mystery to me. But choreography is very… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
In nicey-nicey land, you must be happy-clappy and positive all the time - bad news is taboo. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Where do I get my information from? Well, I get it from the radio, and I get it from the newspaper, 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
You wouldn't wish hardship on anyone, but when it comes, you would be crazy not to see the huge growth that will… — 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
On Anzac Day, coffee and jokes with a Turk might be the most meaningful and fair dinkum dawn service you could possibly… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
If you're becoming weary and disillusioned with Australian values, Judeo-Christian values or Western civilisation, I recommend strangers - they're such a glorious,… — 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
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
