Quotes by Arthur Boyd

• You can't make people respond.
• 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.
• 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.
• If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns.
• I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.
• I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.
• 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.
• Everything I do is the environment.