Frases de Gottfried Helnwein

Gottfried Helnwein é um pintor, fotógrafo e artista de performance nascido em Viena, Áustria.

✵ 8. Outubro 1948
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Gottfried Helnwein: Frases em inglês

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

Interview by Marc Kayser, art-magazine Quest, Berlin, March 2004

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

Interview by Brendan Maher http://www.gottfried-helnwein-interview.com/index.html, Start, Ireland, November 24, 2004
Contexto: 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.

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

Memories of Duckburg, http://www.helnwein.com/texte/helnweintexts/artikel_398.html, Zeit Magazin, Hamburg, 1989

“If anyone from Austrian fine art of the last fifty years could be called a star, then there is only one person who meets all the criteria: Gottfried Helnwein.”

Presence and Time: Gottfried Helnwein's Pictures http://www.helnwein-museum.com/article2534.html, Stella Rollig, director of the Lentos Museum of Modern Art Linz, 2006

“Helnwein is a very fine artist and one sick motherfucker.”

Robert Crumb, letter to his San Francisco art-dealer Martin Muller, 1992

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