Australian Quote by Arthur Boyd Download Open image “I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.” — Arthur Boyd ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Australian Happiness Landscape Metaphysical Stress Uniqueness
I love Australia passionately. I love our landscape. It's influenced most of my work, really. Almost everything I've written is about the landscape. Trying… — Peter Sculthorpe Copy Share Image
“When I returned home soon afterwards, it was with a newly awakened sense of what Australian literature was good for: helping us define ourselves… — George Williamson Copy Share Image
“Our creaturely existence is registered, measured, discussed, and represented in increasingly abstract terms. Maybe this helps explain how someone like me, who should know… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country’s dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so… — Quentin Bryce Copy Share Image
Australia has always put out some good design, particularly environmental graphics. I associate that with Australia, more so that a lot of other places.… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that for a… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
I have always had, as I know many people have, a singular passion for Australia. I do love the sunburnt country, its ancient landscapes,… — Peter Garrett Copy Share Image
There is a reason why the cultures of Indigenous Australia inspire such fascination. And that is that they represent a unique way of thinking… — Kevin Rudd 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 dictates of materialism and secularity, then the raw spirit truth of our native land is alive and radiant by comparison. For joy and meaning we might well turn to our natural country and witness miracles of… — Michael Leunig Copy Share
For a while Australians were desperately trying to be cosmopolitan. I think it is a pointless exercise. Australian novels are those rooted in Australia,… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Wherever you are in the world, there's always something about the Australian light. There's something about the sharpness of it, something about the clarity… — Ken Done Copy Share Image
If I was whisked away... I think I could put up with anything, except not seeing the Australian landscape. It would be a torture… — Arthur Boyd Copy Share Image
If you make a gun, you are either going to sell it or you are going to use it. And if you're going to… — Arthur Boyd Copy Share Image
If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns. — Arthur Boyd Copy Share Image
I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else. — Arthur Boyd Copy Share Image
We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope… — Arthur Boyd Copy Share Image
Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do. — Arthur Boyd Copy Share Image
They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant. — Arthur Boyd Copy Share Image
Before The Ultimate Fighter, I was appearing before a couple of hundred people at most. Now, I'm on the card of a Las Vegas… — Robert Whittaker Copy Share Image
And the commitment that I've been giving to the Australian people is that there'll be no surprises and no excuses under a Coalition government. — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
I really miss the Australian lifestyle and being around my friends and family. — Nathaniel Buzolic Copy Share Image
Being involved in sports and having a very sport orientated family just helped the transition extremely well. I guess, in a way, your school… — Saroo Brierley Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to Nirvana and then went through some bad '90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders. — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
I always think the really unfortunate thing about the Australian film industry is its lack of momentum. And I don't mean this in a… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
MPU was a great platform for emotional drama and Australian stories. — Michael A. Healy Copy Share Image
“If I fuck you, you’ll think all your prayers have been answered. I’ll make you see god, Middleton. I’ll make you think I am… — Eve Dangerfield Copy Share Image
Years later, when I was working as a trolley wally in a supermarket, I tackled the boredom by talking to the customers in as… — Romesh Ranganathan Copy Share Image
There's a bunch of directors that I really admire, and Australian ones as well. It would be nice to do a film at home. — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
An Australian prime minister once said that his job was the second most important job in the country - behind being captain of the… — Glenn McGrath Copy Share Image