Michael Leunig

Michael Leunig

"God help us to live slowly:To move simply:To look softly:To allow emptiness:To let the heart create for us. Amen."
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"God help us to live slowly:To move simply:To look softly:To allow emptiness:To let the heart create for us. Amen."
Michael Leunig
"When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father."
Michael Leunig
"Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works."
Michael Leunig
"The relentless invisible storm of radio signals and electronic particles, the hustle and bustle, and the billions of petrol explosions in the engine blocks of trucks and cars seem to churn up the molecules of life and heaven so violently that the beautiful fogs are unable to hold together like they once did."
Michael Leunig
"Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality."
Michael Leunig
"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, but immediately it falls into other hands who see it as the opportunity to promote the very opposite."
Michael Leunig
"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 and seeing through suburban mentality and normal community standards so that they can find some much-needed relief for their wilting souls."
Michael Leunig
"There's a particular sensitivity required to be an artist, and a certain vulnerability, perhaps, and also, somewhere between, you're in your body a lot, too. It's much more physical than one would imagine because I think it's the body where the imagination lives somehow. I do feel the imagination isn't just in the brain up there."
Michael Leunig
"In nicey-nicey land, you must be happy-clappy and positive all the time - bad news is taboo."
Michael Leunig
"There can be many reasons to travel, but wandering into the world for no particular reason is a sublime madness, which in all its whimsy and pointlessness may depict the story of life - and indeed could be a useful model to keep in mind, seeing as so much of life's ambition comes unstuck or leads to nothing much at all."
Michael Leunig
"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 displayed like holy relics, and this can certainly be a great pleasure on a rainy Sunday afternoon."
Michael Leunig
"Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros."
Michael Leunig
"The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination."
Michael Leunig
"A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out."
Michael Leunig
"Easter is not limited to the passion and death of Christ; it also includes the dismal tragedy of life unlived by the many, and all the loss of passion and truth that goes with it."
Michael Leunig
"Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth - so there's two stories there."
Michael Leunig
"Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy."
Michael Leunig
"I must warn you right here and now that I am a 'wet leftie,' a 'leftist' and also a member of the 'bleeding heart liberal left.' I had no say in it whatsoever. I woke up one morning, and these things were tattooed across my forehead."
Michael Leunig
"Like normal people, leftists now have to get up in the morning and earn a living, seeing as the fascists have come down so hard on social welfare fraud, and this is the cruel reality. The good old days are gone, and increasingly, leftists are to be found working in ordinary, proper jobs."
Michael Leunig
"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 schools like a branch of public relations or political science."
Michael Leunig
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