“ 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
“ 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 ima… 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
“ A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light. Michael Leunig
“ It is at Easter that Jesus is most human, and like all humans, he fails and is failed. His is not an all-powerful God, it is an all-vulnerable God. 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 an… Michael Leunig
“ In my adolescence, I think I felt very outcast; I felt lonely. I felt great loneliness, and sometimes I wouldn't partake in Christmas, and I would go off and wander in the streets of Melbourne. Michael Leunig
“ Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult. 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 certa… 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
“ 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… 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
“ Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works. Michael Leunig
“ Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy. Michael Leunig
“ In nicey-nicey land, you must be happy-clappy and positive all the time - bad news is taboo. 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 wor… Michael Leunig
“ An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose chase. It can help to make you miserable, or dull and nasty and insipid, or profoundly stupid… 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 mole… 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… Michael Leunig
