Arthur Boyd quotes

Arthur Boyd quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“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.”
-- Arthur Boyd

#People Quotes #Paradise Quotes #Messages Quotes
“They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.”
-- Arthur Boyd

#Arrogant Quotes #Used Quotes
“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

#Gun Quotes #Use Quotes
“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

#Thinking Quotes #Piano Quotes #Would Be 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.”
-- Arthur Boyd

#Art Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Thinking Quotes
“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

#Art Quotes #Want Quotes #Matter Quotes
“Everything I do is the environment.”
-- Arthur Boyd

#Environment Quotes
“If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns.”
-- Arthur Boyd

#Gun Quotes #Alive Quotes #Protect Quotes
“I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.”
-- Arthur Boyd

#Stress Quotes #Landscape Quotes #Metaphysical Quotes
“You can't make people respond.”
-- Arthur Boyd

#People Quotes

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