Arthur Boyd quotes
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“We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.”
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“They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.”
-- Arthur Boyd -
“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.”
-- Arthur Boyd -
“I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.”
-- Arthur Boyd -
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“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.”
-- Arthur Boyd -
“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.”
-- Arthur Boyd -
“If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns.”
-- Arthur Boyd -
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“I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.”
-- Arthur Boyd
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