Australian - Cartoonist | June 2, 1945 -
I became a cartoonist because I'd sort of failed at everything else, really. I mean, it was by default.
Michael Leunig
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I see a lot of my children. They're around the house all the time on the farm, you know.
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I just happen to believe that what's at stake in the early child's development is so vital and so important, and I think it is founded in the main, in the broad cultural sense, on the relationship between the mother and child.
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Pursuit is a rather desperate act in itself. There's something kind of frantic about the notion of pursuit.
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Happiness, it's a small thing - just a very little thing.
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It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles.
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The expressive body is not literal; it's very primal, and that's what I feel when I make the best of my work. It's coming from a primal place rather than an intellectual place.
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For 13 years, I struggled with education and have only just realised that I was actually struggling to protect myself from it. I was trying to protect my soul.
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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 in the special way that 'brainy' people can be.
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Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works.
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Meat workers may have been looked down upon socially, but at least they were well-paid and were a fit and lively bunch as a result of hard, honest physical work.
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The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.
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