"If anyone from Austrian fine art of the last fifty years could be called a star, then there is only one person who me…"

"Helnwein has always said that he paints children because they symbolize humanity better than adults. This may be so, …"

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

"Of all his paintings, the most disturbing is Epiphany (1996), for which he dips into our collective memory of Christi…"

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

"Opening my first Donald Duck comic book felt like seeing the daylight again for someone who had been trapped undergro…"

"When I started to paint, I painted children because I just felt that I wanted to take their side. What always upset m…"

"My question always was: why do people always cause so much pain to other people? Why does everybody look so hurt? Whe…"

"Imaginations and illusions are always so much more powerful and bigger than this mediocre and boring thing called rea…"

"When I look at a work of Art I ask myself: does it inspire me, does it touch and move me, do I learn something from i…"