Arthur Boyd Quotes

If I was whisked away ... I think I could put up with anything, except not seeing the Australian landscape. It would be a torture to have it cut off.

Everything I do is the environment.

I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.

If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns.

If you make a gun, you are either going to sell it or you are going to use it. And if you're going to sell it, someone else is going to use it.

You can't make people respond.

They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.

I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.