"A nation of rich cowards’: Australia needs its dreamers but the arts are underfunded, undervalued and despised."
"We need a society that values its visionaries, those who go against the grain to create new dreams that reveal other ways of being."
"We stand in the 21st century, one of the wealthiest societies in human history, yet diminished and lost: a nation of rich cowards without even the courage to acknowledge our origins and far less the possibility of a better future than the nightmare daily growing around us."
"To be an artist in a society contemptuous of the very idea of art is an act of courage."
