"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."

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Source : Interview with Brendan Maher, November 24, 2004.

Gottfried Helnwein

#Children Quotes #Fun Quotes #Pain Quotes

“Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.”
“I suppose that as you grow older some sense of an accumulating oeuvre is unavoidable.”

Source : Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk
“When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'”
“People have a right to their opinion.”
“I enjoy being characters rather than myself.”

Source : Interview with Dave Grohl, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 19, 2011.
“any fair-minded person will agree that humanity hasn't the faintest inkling, at this time, of the powers and laws that will, sometime, be known and used.”
“I can choose to be unstable.”
“I thought the best thing that I could do would be to clean up my own act, in terms of whatever .. childhood wounds were left.”

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