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I haven't any desire for success or the limelight, and no further wish to explain myself. Neither do I wish to play, any more than I can help, a part in the world of petty tyranny, greed and murder, and war ... My pacifism and my paintings are now closely linked.

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Source: Angus in a letter to composer Douglas Lilburn. As stated in NZ On Screen's "Lovely Rita," NZ On Screen 2007. NZ On Screen. Published: 2007.
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