{"author":"Michael Leunig","author_id":"Michael+Leunig","total_quotes":29,"quotes":[{"text":"Sadly, semi-consciousness, along with daydreaming, is a capacity that is actively discouraged among children in schools, and our society is much poorer and harsher as a consequence. The value of liminal space and transitional imagination remain personally and culturally undeveloped.","author":"Michael Leunig","tags":["children","imagination "],"id":18005,"author_id":"Michael+Leunig"},{"text":"In nicey-nicey land, you must be happy-clappy and positive all the time - bad news is taboo.","author":"Michael Leunig","tags":["time","news","you "],"id":18545,"author_id":"Michael+Leunig"},{"text":"There can be many reasons to travel, but wandering into the world for no particular reason is a sublime madness, which in all its whimsy and pointlessness may depict the story of life - and indeed could be a useful model to keep in mind, seeing as so much of life's ambition comes unstuck or leads to nothing much at all.","author":"Michael Leunig","tags":["life","ambition","world "],"id":41368,"author_id":"Michael+Leunig"},{"text":"Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult.","author":"Michael Leunig","tags":["music","poetry","childhood "],"id":42657,"author_id":"Michael+Leunig"},{"text":"Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.","author":"Michael Leunig","tags":["best","reality","may "],"id":62253,"author_id":"Michael+Leunig"},{"text":"Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.","author":"Michael Leunig","tags":["faith"],"id":71248,"author_id":"Michael+Leunig"},{"text":"There's a particular sensitivity required to be an artist, and a certain vulnerability, perhaps, and also, somewhere between, you're in your body a lot, too. It's much more physical than one would imagine because I think it's the body where the imagination lives somehow. I do feel the imagination isn't just in the brain up there.","author":"Michael Leunig","tags":["brain","artist","think "],"id":78253,"author_id":"Michael+Leunig"},{"text":"The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination.","author":"Michael Leunig","tags":["relationship","imagination "],"id":82565,"author_id":"Michael+Leunig"},{"text":"In my adolescence, I think I felt very outcast; I felt lonely. I felt great loneliness, and sometimes I wouldn't partake in Christmas, and I would go off and wander in the streets of Melbourne.","author":"Michael Leunig","tags":["great","loneliness","lonely "],"id":88381,"author_id":"Michael+Leunig"},{"text":"Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth - so there's two stories there.","author":"Michael Leunig","tags":["truth","great","suffering "],"id":92877,"author_id":"Michael+Leunig"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":29,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}