Michael Leunig Quotes

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

Michael Leunig

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• t0 is blockchain-agnostic so, ultimately, we can use anybody's blockchain.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Use
  • Anybody
  • Blockchain

• I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • People
  • Pain
  • Myself

• I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Up
  • Career
  • Growing

• In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Beginning
  • Dance
  • Much

• I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • People
  • Rules
  • Old

• Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Character
  • Hand
  • Intelligence

• Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Woman
  • Hip Hop
  • Complex

• People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.

  

  Inga Cadranel
  • People
  • Like
  • Drive

• If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Believe
  • Single

• Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

  

  E. B. White
  • Men
  • Luck
  • Presence

• Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Mind
  • Science
  • Political

• I've never abandoned the novel.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Never
  • Novel
  • Abandoned

• I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.

  

  Raekwon
  • Time
  • Quality
  • Taste

• I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Myself
  • Justice
  • English

• Joe and I are still very aware of the fact that we live in a country where he criticised the government and lived another day. That trumps all. To paraphrase Churchill, democracy is the worst form of government apart from all the other forms of government. You constantly have to fight for it; you have to keep your government honest.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Live
  • Country
  • Day

• I've done a lot of sci-fi, so I was a little hesitant because you get pigeonholed into that genre and world. But at the same time, I love sci-fi because the women are so strong and independent and smart.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Relationship
  • Body
  • Boss

• I've been so blessed to have the opportunities that I've had.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Blessed
  • Opportunities
  • Been

• Arenas, to me, and especially sheds, are really great venues. You get that sea of humanity, but everybody can still see it and hear it. And that's really important to us.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Great
  • Important
  • Humanity

• My beautiful, selfless sister Manuela Testolini-Benet continues to inspire me to be a better woman. Always thinking of others, always doing God's work.

  

  Apollonia Kotero
  • Work
  • God
  • Thinking

• The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Home
  • America
  • Wilderness

• Everyday create your history, every path you take you're leaving your legacy.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • History
  • Create
  • Legacy

• The peace of the world concerns only body and time but the peace, the joy, that Christ gives enriches the soul for eternity

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Time
  • World
  • Soul

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

  

  Michael Leunig
  • World
  • Art
  • Painting