Helnwein Quotes & Sayings

My art is not an answer, it is a question. — Gottfried Helnwein

Warhol is the pre-Helnwein. — Gottfried Helnwein

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

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

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

That fat speed that I love, that sensation, that's what I want. — Picabo Street

As a beast, he had lived in a world of bliss, acting on his instincts, thinking only when he had to, never seeing himself for what he was, never worrying about his mortality, never trying to cheat death. But now his thoughts and fears ruled him. He knew evil for the first time. — A.G. Riddle

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

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

Do I need fifty finger-painted pictures by my toddler, or is one enough to capture this time of life? Mementos work best when they're carefully chosen - and when they don't take up much room! — Gretchen Rubin

I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background. — Alex Prager

London was a city of ghosts, some deader than others.
Thorne knew that in this respect, it wasn't unlike any other major city - New York or Paris or Sydney - but he felt instinctively that London was ... at the extreme. The darker side of that history, as opposed to the parks, palaces and pearly kings' side that made busloads of Japanese and American tourists gawk and jabber. The hidden history of a city where the lonely, the dispossessed, the homeless, wandered the streets, brushing shoulders with the shadows of those that had come before them. A city in which the poor and the plague-ridden, those long-since hanged for stealing a loaf or murdered for a shilling, jostled for position with those seeking a meal, or a score, or a bed for the night.
A city where the dead could stay lost a long time — Mark Billingham

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

Kilroy," Jeremy said and the boy turned to face his father again. "Stand fast, boy," he told him. "Stand fast. — Hazel B. West

That's one problem I've always had: when I'm anywhere near shit creek, I have to know how far up that creek actually goes." --Hester Day — Mercedes Helnwein

Courage is not fearlessness. — Shannon Hale

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