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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.