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Gottfried Helnwein Quotes

born 1948 Austria

Gottfried Helnwein (born October 8, 1948, in Vienna) is an Austrian-Irish fine artist, photographer and installation and performance artist.

Austria
Painters
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Also known as: Gottfried helnwein

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I never understood why some people seemed to have fun causing pain to someone smaller.

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

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

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

The grimaces on these mocking distorted faces signalize disobedience, opposition and turmoil, as well as a kind of childlike autonomy in the depraved world of adults.

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.

My question always was: why do people always cause so much pain to other people? Why does everybody look so hurt? When I started to paint I didn’t feel I had any message. My art was not an answer – it was a question.

" 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."

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gottfried Helnwein (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.