You can't make people respond.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

You can't make people respond.