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Michael Leunig has 108 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed." And I'd…
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When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from…
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Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and new.
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Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is the the…
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There is some suffering that awaits us all.
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The cartoonist’s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power relationships such…
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God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And sinks within…
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At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature. Just to…
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For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something possibly long..…
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I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.
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Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting on a…
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It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
— David Bailey
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My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork…
— Eli Broad
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My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh,…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that…
— Jim Carrey
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Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if…
— Maya Angelou
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Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of…
— Jack Kerouac
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What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what…
— Hokusai
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When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field…
— Arthur Koestler
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Psychiatry's a young science. Yesterday's madman may be tomorrow's genius. Beethoven and Van Gogh were both a bit loopy. In my view,…
— Unknown Author
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If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.
— Juliet Stevenson
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I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it…
— David Hockney
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