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Arthur Boyd

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


— Arthur Boyd


#guns #protect #talk #won #you

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


#art #matter #out #painter #points

Everything I do is the environment.


— Arthur Boyd


#everything #i #i do

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


— Arthur Boyd


#content #i #landscape #metaphysical #mythic

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


#better #else #enough #everything #had

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


#else #going #gun #make #sell

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


— Arthur Boyd


#french #insular #nationalistic #pretty #used

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


#education #environment #get #hope #intense

You can't make people respond.


— Arthur Boyd


#people #respond #you






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Did you know about Arthur Boyd?

The previous record price was A$1. A member of the prominent Boyd artistic dynasty in Australia his relatives included painters sculptors architects or other arts professionals. 68 million setting a new record for a Boyd work.

His wife Yvonne Boyd (née Lennie) and son Jamie and daughters Polly and Lucy are also painters. Several famous works set Biblical stories against the Australian landscape such as The Expulsion (1947–48) now at Art Gallery of New South Wales. Boyd's work ranges from impressionist renderings of Australian landscape to starkly expressionist figuration and many canvases feature both.

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