Michael Leunig Quotes

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• 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…
• There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed." And I'd say, 'Yeah well,…
• When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from the good old…
• Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and new.
• Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is the the soul with its…
• There is some suffering that awaits us all.
• The cartoonist’s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power relationships such as we see…
• God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And sinks within a minute. And…
• At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature. Just to be in the…
• For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something possibly long.. suffering, where meanings…
• I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.
• Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting on a 'whim'. If only…
• Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire.
• The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing…
• In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for truth.
• Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that
• Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non compliance in the face of great authority where…
• Any cartoon that can be liked by a committee is really not worth drawing; in fact, must not be drawn at all! Better to become…
• Stay away from excellence at all costs; it stinks.
• Stay out of the loop, the club, the inner circle.

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