Quotes by Arthur Boyd

About Arthur Boyd:

Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd 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 (1947–48), now at Art Gallery of New South Wales.
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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.

Arthur Boyd

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.

Arthur Boyd

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

Arthur Boyd

Everything I do is the environment.

Arthur Boyd

You can't make people respond.

Arthur Boyd

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

Arthur Boyd

They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.

Arthur Boyd

I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.

Arthur Boyd

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.

Arthur Boyd

Author Bio

  • NameArthur Boyd
  • Descriptionpainter from Australia
  • AliasesArthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd
  • BornJuly 24, 1920
  • DiedApril 24, 1999
  • CountryAustralia
  • ProfessionPainter
  • AwardsOrder Of Australia