Best quotes by Michael Leunig on Art

Checkout quotes by Michael Leunig on Art

  • 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.
    - 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
  • 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 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
  • All good art is seditious, but the people in authority can never recognise it. I think when you mention sedition, artists are the ones whose eyes light up thinking, 'Oh, yes, I want some of that!'
    - Michael Leunig