If I was whisked away... I think I could put up with anything, except not seeing the Australian landscape. It would be a torture to have it cut off.

- Arthur Boyd

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

- 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

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

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 messa…

- Arthur Boyd

You can't make people respond.

- Arthur Boyd

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

- Arthur Boyd

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