“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayLittlesSaidFeelingsTurnsNatureCuttingAwakeCommoditySimplestVansTourismIntegratingEcoLive Every DaySeedlings Author:Michael Leunig
“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.” IfsWayArtIdeasHardDoneActingBehindsHard WorkTerribleGift From GodWhimWhimsicalBarnacles Author:Michael Leunig
“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.” WayKindSufferingCreativeEgoCollapseEludeElude Us Author:Michael Leunig
