Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Arthur Boyd

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Australian artist Arthur Boyd.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd was a leading Australian painter of the middle to 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 the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Having a strong social conscience, Boyd's work deals with humanitarian issues and universal themes of love, loss and shame.

Australian - Artist | July 20, 1920 - April 24, 1999

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Everything I do is the environment.

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

Arthur Boyd

You can't make people respond.

Arthur Boyd

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

Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Arthur Boyd

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