Meat workers may have been looked down upon socially, but at least they were well-paid and were a fit and lively bunch… — 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 Art Copy Share Image
In my adolescence, I think I felt very outcast; I felt lonely. I felt great loneliness, and sometimes I wouldn't partake in… — Michael Leunig Adolescence Copy Share Image
Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works. — Michael Leunig Art 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 Bible 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
In later life, we don't easily talk of fears, but instead we discuss our 'concerns.' Fear seems too primal and hysterical, but… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we're still also driven by… — 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 Abstraction Copy Share Image
I have sometimes done cartoons that are hurtful to people - immature, spiteful stuff. Some are so self-indulgent, and some have just… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
In order to be truthful We must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth. We must also receive… — Michael Leunig Amen 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 some ways, calm bodily protest has a nakedness to it that may be deeply embarrassing for observers; an act not unlike… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
What a magical thing is the bed, and what a vulnerable, innocent creature is the sleeping human - the human who never… — Michael Leunig Angel Copy Share Image
Citizens, regardless of their political inclinations, carry a devout sense of their shared culture and its temperament - and, having contributed to… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Like normal people, leftists now have to get up in the morning and earn a living, seeing as the fascists have come… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Murk can be described as an enfeebled fog with a personality disorder; it is more troubled than ethereal, sulking moodily over our… — Michael Leunig Day Copy Share Image
Life itself is offensive and certainly does not apologize - in fact, it hurts considerably and, as we all know, is often… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for… — Michael Leunig Being truthful Copy Share Image
It is difficult to imagine any time in history when so many people claiming to be so free have lived in so… — 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 Anzac day Copy Share Image
Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non compliance in the face of… — Michael Leunig Authority Copy Share Image
I think we live in delusional times, whether it's with a great ability to totally distract ourselves with technology, or with speed… — Michael Leunig Ability Copy Share Image
The work of the artist is to express what is repressed or even to speak the unspoken grief of society. — Michael Leunig Art Copy Share Image
Easter is not limited to the passion and death of Christ; it also includes the dismal tragedy of life unlived by the… — 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… — Michael Leunig Child Copy Share Image
Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and new. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
God help us to live slowly: To move simply: To look softly: To allow emptiness: To let the heart create for us.… — Michael Leunig Amen Copy Share Image
The insatiable need for heartless power and ruthless control is the telltale sign of an uninitiated man - the most irresponsible, incompetent… — Michael Leunig Control Copy Share Image
At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature. Just to… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting on a… — Michael Leunig Acting 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
I just happen to believe that what's at stake in the early child's development is so vital and so important, and I… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
As a child, I heard many warnings from teachers about the perils of talking with strangers. Yet now, fairly late in my… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, it looks like the Palestinians have been massively robbed and abused, and are engaged in a… — Michael Leunig Abuse Copy Share Image
Is a brazen and innocent confrontation with paternal authority an unbearably terrifying prospect to some? Are the consequences of a fathers anger… — Michael Leunig Anger Copy Share Image
Perhaps the more benign and poetic sense of God is established when we are babies in the moments of primal joy we… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
We might imagine that Jesus had many human faults. He failed most humanly, in my reckoning, when he killed the fig tree… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Over the years, my marks on paper have landed me in all sorts of courts and controversies - I have been comprehensively… — Michael Leunig Anti american 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… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
