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Arthur Boyd

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[Wikipedia] Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd was a leading Australian painter of the middle to late 20th century. Boyd's work ranges from impressionist renderings of Australian landscape to starkly expressionist figuration, and many canvases feature both. Several famous works set Biblical stories against the Austr

Quotes by Arthur Boyd

If I was whisked away... I think I could put up with anything, except not seeing the Australian landscape. It would be…

Art

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If you make a gun, you are either going to sell it or you are going to use it. And if you're…

Gun

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If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns.

Alive

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I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.

Australian

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Everything I do is the environment.

Environment

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I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything…

Enough

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You can't make people respond.

People

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We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment…

Education

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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…

Art

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They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.

Arrogant

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