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.

Warhol is the pre-Helnwein.

My art was not an answer - it was a question.

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.

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

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