Arthur Boyd Quotes

Arthur Boyd — Australian Artist born on July 20, 1920, died on April 24, 1999

Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd AC OBE was a leading Australian painter of the late 20th century. Boyd's work ranges from impressionist renderings of Australian landscape to starkly expressionist figuration, and many canvases feature both. Several famous works set Biblical stories against the Australian landscape, such as The Expulsion , now at Art Gallery of New South Wales... (wikipedia)

I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.

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.

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.

If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns.