"You can't make people respond."

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

"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."

"Everything I do is the environment."

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

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

"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."