All Michael Leunig Quotes
- Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it. Behind
- I had a few ducks as a kid. Ducks
- If you know anything about ducks, you know a baby duck will imprint itself on you. It misses its mother. Baby
- Apparently, the pathfinder duck is a psychological archetype in certain cultures. Apparently
- Muftis and bishops should be like ripe camembert cheeses - a bit on the nose and not for the faint-hearted, but memorable! Bishops
- What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, escaping from the drabness and oppressiveness of worldly values… Commerce
- Humanity hungers for the uncommon. Humanity
- There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured art pieces are… Afternoon
- Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy. Alas
- In contemporary art culture, where good looks and clever strategic planning of art careers have become a feature, professional practice may be taught in art… Art
- All the world loves a young emerging artist, and sometimes it seems that all the world wants to be one - on a bad, gloomy… All
- A world view is probably an expression of self. Expression
- I never had a spirit-breaking, soul-destroying religion drummed into me. Breaking
- As a cartoonist, I am not interested in defending the dominant, the powerful, the well-resourced and the well-armed because such groups are usually not in… Advocacy
- The work of the artist is to express what is repressed or even to speak the unspoken grief of society. Artist
- When all is said and done, it looks like the Palestinians have been massively robbed and abused, and are engaged in a desperate struggle for… Abuse
- At my advanced age, I know I am not an anti-Semite, not even vaguely or remotely, but others would seem to know better, as false… Accusers
- As we grow, we lift our gaze higher and higher, and then sometimes we are brought to our knees, but all is not lost; what… All
- Practically every technology that is ever invented is touted as being the new savior, the thing that will bring peace and goodwill to the earth,… Bring
- My father was a meat worker. He was a union organizer in the meat workers union. Father
- I was a reflective child. Child
- All nations that throw their military weight around, occupying neighboring lands and treating the residents with callous and humiliating disregard, are already sliding towards the… All
- My children just want to get at the world; it is so pleasantly surprising to witness that. Children
- What really irks me is the snide victimizing suggestion from some that I have tried to be lighthearted and funny... Oh my God - this… From
- Making jokes is about the most wrong and stupid thing a bemused, middle-aged, white heterosexual Anglo Saxon sort of Celt Australian male can do these… Aged