Michael Leunig Quotes

Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and new.

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

God help us to live slowly: To move simply: To look softly: To allow emptiness: To let the heart create for us. Amen.

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.

Love a single an additional and you will be satisfied. It really is as easy and as challenging as that.

In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for truth.

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.

The cartoonist’s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power relationships such as we see in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.

The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.

There is some suffering that awaits us all.

What makes an interview 'difficult'? Well, there are many reasons, but the end result is usually the same: The guest just doesn't seem comfortable answering the question.

Don't give in to hate - it puts you off balance

A world view is probably an expression of self.

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.

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

Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.

In nicey-nicey land, you must be happy-clappy and positive all the time - bad news is taboo.

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

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.

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.

Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy.

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.

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.

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

God help us to live slowly:To move simply:To look softly:To allow emptiness:To let the heart create for us.Amen.

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.