Arthur Boyd quotes

If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns. (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. View quote
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I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content. View quote
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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. View quote
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Everything I do is the environment. View quote
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You can't make people respond. View quote
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I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else. View quote
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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. View quote
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They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant. View quote
Arthur Boyd

Arthur Boyd

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Occupation: Australian Artist
Born: July 24, 1920
Died: April 24, 1999
Quotes count: 9

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