Area Quote by Richard Flanagan

The Bradshaws suggests an extraordinary civilisation that existed long before modern man reached the British Isles.

— Richard Flanagan

“Oyster Bay, Florida,is a diminutive settlement plodding along the path to ghost town status.”

— M.W.Gordon

“It didn't take me long out there, in the landscapes my father had painted, to realize that as much as I loved my country…

— Geraldine Brooks

“Even if they took him, she said, she would go with him. They could not separate them against their wills, she said. Shuffling the…

— Virginia Woolf

“The very essence of Australia is our lack of sophistication–our refusal to conform to pretension and superficiality. We ought to be upholding our ‘fair-dinkumness’…

— Tim Macartney-Snape

Wherever you are in the world, there's always something about the Australian light. There's something about the sharpness of it, something about the clarity…

— Ken Done

The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism

— Walter Gropius

“Everyone who writes in the sub-genre of Victorian mystery stands in [Sir Arthur Conan] Doyle's shadow.”

— Will Thomas

They've been irrelevant to me, the print media, because my link does not depend upon the menial minds of the scribblers in Canberra or…

— Bob Hawke

“Seeing Blackpool on a dull winter's day rather spoilt my image of what seaside places were like. (From LONE WOLF, p.60)”

— Len Webster

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size…

— Pat Oliphant

Some people might think that the paintings are involved with a mythic - not just subject matter - but a certain sort of physical…

— Julian Schnabel