Quotes by Helnwein
  • "Ich glaube dass alle Arbeiten eines Künstlers im Grunde immer nur um ein einziges zentrales Anliegen oder Motiv kreisen. Und jedes Werk so etwas wie ein neuer, mehr oder weniger erfolgreicher Versuch ist, sich diesem Grundthema zu nähern, es sichtbar zu machen, zu fassen, zu formulieren, obwohl es im Prinzip immateriell, und daher nicht fassbar ist, und keine Form hat"
    Source
    Gottfried Helnwein
    Interview, by Peter Nedoma, director of the Galerie Rudolfinum in Prague, at the occasion of the retrospective "Angels Sleeping - The Work of Gottfried Helnwein", April, 2008
  • "Opening my first Donald Duck comic book felt like seeing the daylight again for someone who had been trapped underground by a mine-disaster for many days. I squinted cautiously because my eyes hadn't gotten used to the dazzlingly bright sun of Duckburg yet, and I greedily sucked the fresh breeze into my dusty lungs that came drifting over from Uncle Scrooge's money bin. I was back home again, in a decent world where one could get flattened by steam-rollers and perforated by bullets without serious harm. A world in which people still looked proper, with yellow beaks or black knobs instead of noses. And it was here that I met the man who would forever change my life - Donald Duck."
    Source
    Gottfried Helnwein
    "Memories of Duckburg", essay by Gottfried Helnwein, published under the title "Micky Maus unter dem roten Stern", ZeitMagazin, Hamburg, April 12, 1989. 2nd publication in the book "ZEIT-Museum der 100 Bilder - Bedeutende Autoren und Künstler stellen ihr liebstes Kunstwerk vor", herausgegeben von Fritz J. Raddatz, insel taschenbuch 1213, Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1989
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