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

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

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.

The first time I saw a picture of Elvis - I was in a state of shock, because I couldn't believe that a human being could be so beautiful.

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

Warhol is the pre-Helnwein.

I’ve learnt that eyes don't change. No matter how old or beat up you get, your eyes stay the same.

The chain of friendship however bright does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

I think especially as women we nned to recognize that feeling pressure is completely selfimposed.

From Russia for example, we have political support, which is different from the cooperation. We have cooperation for 60 years now, but now we have political support.

What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating.

Every meaning is a projection of the viewer's inarticulate moods.

He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.

We have been forgiven so much that nothing we forgive compares to the amount we have been forgiven.

Sometimes the greatest victories we can make for mankind are the victories we make over ourselves.