Norman Lindsay

"These are faithful and loving studies of the model in which the breasts and thighs are as individual and eloquent as the faces, and every part of the body thinks, feels and speaks."

"Sex is not only the basis of life, it is the reason for life."

"In the art of biography, the idolator is just as objectionable as the debunker."

"I never indulge sentiment over broken friendships. We have extracted all we need from a friend, and so get rid of him on the same terms as he gets rid of us."

"Words are cheap currency, but coin of the realm has the sincerity on it."

"Livingstone Hopkins had an infirmity common to most professional humorists; in himself, he was quite humourless."

"They were a bloodthirsty lot, those sentimentalists who wept for the sad lot of the working classes."

"The best love affairs are those we never had."

"Oh, no, no, no! Couldnt think of it. Its a very dangerous book. Had a very bad influence."

"There is something extremely disgusting in having ones work pawed by policemen."

"[H]e was a very well-bred young fellow, polite in his manners, graceful in his attitudes, and able to converse on a great variety of subjects, having read all the best Australian poets."

"It is essential to effort that existence should be hard, painful and uncertain. It is essential that the struggle should endure, for it is by the struggle man develops. If it ceased, and life became perfect — effort would cease; Life would cease.For Life is effort."