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Arthur Boyd [1920-1999] Australian
Rank: 107
Artist


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. 

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I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.
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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. Trust
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I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.
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Everything I do is the environment.
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If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns.
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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.
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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.
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You can't make people respond.
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They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.
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