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Michael Leunig Biography

Michael Leunig (born 2 June 1945), typically referred to as Leunig (his signature on his cartoons), is an Australian cartoonist, poet and cultural commentator. His best known works include The Adventures of Vasco Pyjama and the Curly Flats series. He was declared an Australian Living Treasure by the National Trust of Australia in 1999.

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At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature. Just to be in the presence of nature your feelings and 'little seedlings' start to awake. So if we disassociate ourselves from God we cut nature out, too. More and more we turn nature into a commodity, into eco-tourism. But we must integrate it into the way people live every day.

Cutting, Francis, Nature, Simplest, Thinking

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

Difficult, Happiness, Happy, Inspirational, Love, Simple

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

Alone, Art, Children, Company, Mind, Sandpit

A world view is probably an expression of self.

Expression, Self, Views, World

There are only two feelings, Love and fear: There are only two languages, Love and fear: There are only two activities, Love and fear: There are only two motives, two procedures, two frameworks, two results, Love and fear, Love and fear.

Activities, Fear, Feelings, Frameworks, Language, Two

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

Balance, Give, Giving, Hate

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

Born, Day, Each Day, Lifetime, Lying, Morning

Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting on a 'whim'. If only these were gifts from God when I get an idea, but everything I have done that I really love has had a lot of hard work behind it.

Art, Hard Work, Ideas, Terrible, Way, Whim

For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something possibly long. . suffering, where meanings are made, where there is a sense of this gathering of perceptions, that our death is not the most important thing, nor our life.

Art, Impulse, Long, Soul, Towards

The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing whatever it be, but so often it eludes us and it collapses and we kind of regress into this mental suffering, we can't find what we're looking for.

Creative, Ego, Elude Us, Kind, Making, Start

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.

Damage, Generations, Heart, People, War, Wars

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

Challenges, Challenging, Easy, Love, Satisfied

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.

Balance, Cartoonists, Conflict, Giving, Task, Tasks

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.

Comfortable, Guests, Interviews, Question, Reason, Same

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

God, Heart, Live, Looks, Move, Moving

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

Order, Search, Speak, Truthful

There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed. " And I'd say, 'Yeah well, that's not me. I'm just interested in that because I think it makes a funny drawing. ' But later I understood it was me in many respects; my hand was doing it ahead of the head's understanding.

Ahead, Depressed, Loneliness, Lonely, Respects, Wisdom

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

Art, Done, Inner, Joyous, World