"There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed." And I'd say, 'Yeah well, that's not me. I'm just interested in that because I think it makes a funny drawing.' But later I understood it was me in many respects; my hand was doing it ahead of the head's understanding."

-- Michael Leunig

#Wisdom Quotes #Lonely Quotes #Loneliness Quotes

“The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects their existence; they are masked evil. Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil; every man knows that something is wrong when he is being hurt.”
“My art side is free and there are no strings attached.”
“If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.”
“Normally, if you go through a game without attracting attention, you are doing a hell of a job.”
“It's hard to say how time factors into your work, because sometimes things will come to you very quickly, but it will take years for the ideas to be gestating in your mind.”
“But when you flee someone, no matter how far you roam, that person will follow you as doggedly as the stars.”
“Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.”

Source : Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. 2004.
“Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.”

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