Michael Leunig Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.”

“Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness: the beautiful and necessary prelude to sleep - a special pleasure in itself that is all too often neglected, under-valued or looked down upon.”

“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.”

“Falling down is a very big subject, and so is the concept of downfall. None of us escapes, and I have had my share of both.”

“Two's company and three's a crowd, but seven can be an uprising. And the seven can become 70 or 700 or 7000 very quickly if the sense of being wronged is felt broadly and truly enough.”

“Any cartoon that can be liked by a committee is really not worth drawing; in fact, must not be drawn at all! Better to become a stockbroker.”

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

“Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire.”

“A beautiful wake-up is one of life's most perfectly happy times.”

“Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works.”