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

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.

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

Warhol is the pre-Helnwein.

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.

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