"The work of the artist is to express……" — Michael Leunig

"The work of the artist is to express what is repressed or even to speak the unspoken grief of society."

— Michael Leunig

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108 Quotes by Michael Leunig

Michael Leunig has 108 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and…
There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed."…
When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the…
Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and…
Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is…
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…
God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And…
At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature.…
For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something…
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…

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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