Gottfried Helnwein Quotes

• Imaginations and illusions are always so much more powerful and bigger than this mediocre and boring thing called reality.

  Gottfried Helnwein

  Powerful, Reality, Imagination

  Interview with Yuichi Konno, Yaso magazine, Japan, 2003.

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• In retrospect I would say from Donald Duck I have learned more about life than from all the schools I ever attended.

  Gottfried Helnwein

  School, Ducks, Retrospect

  "Memories of Duckburg". Zeit Magazin, Hamburg, 1989.

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• When I started to paint, I painted children because I just felt that I wanted to take their side. What always upset me was how children are getting abused simply because they are physically weaker and not capable of defending themselves - how they get raped, enslaved and killed. I never understood why some people seemed to have fun causing pain to someone smaller.

  Gottfried Helnwein

  Fun, Pain, Children

  Interview with Brendan Maher, November 24, 2004.

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• I feel there is a strong bond between artists and children and all other sacred fools.

  Gottfried Helnwein

  Strong, Children, Artist

  "My Art Is Not an Answer - It Is a Question". Interview with Yuichi Konno, www.helnwein.com. September 6, 2003.

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• My art was not an answer - it was a question.

  Gottfried Helnwein

  Art, Answers, Art Is

  "My Art Is Not An Answer - It Is A Question". Interview with Yuichi Konno, www.helnwein.com. September 6, 2003.

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• Art is a weapon for me, with which I can strike back.

  Gottfried Helnwein

  Art, Weapons, Strikes

  Interview with Marc Kayser, Quest, Berlin, March 2004.

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• The first time I saw a picture of Elvis - I was in a state of shock, because I couldn't believe that a human being could be so beautiful.

  Gottfried Helnwein

  Beautiful, Believe, Saws

  Interview with Helmut Sorge, 2006.

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• Warhol is the pre-Helnwein.

  Gottfried Helnwein

  Warhol

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• Not only do I think that he is highly intelligent but also outstandingly educated. ... He is extremely beautiful, fragile and totally unearthly. I always had the feeling that he is not standing on the floor but slightly floating on air. Michael Jackson knows that he appears like that on others and he also knows how to employ it.

  Gottfried Helnwein

  Beautiful, Intelligent, Thinking

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