I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn’t starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.
About Arthur Boyd
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd was a leading Australian painter of the middle to late 20th century. Boyd’s work ranges from impressionist renderings of Australian landscape to starkly expressionist figuration, and many canvases feature both.
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Everything I do is the environment.
Australian painter (1920-1999)
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.
Australian painter (1920-1999)
They’re very nationalistic the French – or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.
Australian painter (1920-1999)
I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.
Australian painter (1920-1999)
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.
Australian painter (1920-1999)
If you can’t protect yourself with talk, you won’t be alive to protect yourself with guns.
Australian painter (1920-1999)
You can’t make people respond.
Australian painter (1920-1999)
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.
Australian painter (1920-1999)
I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn’t starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.
Australian painter (1920-1999)