Friedensreich Hundertwasser Quotes

• The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line.

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  Creativity, Creative, Lines

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• You are a guest of nature - behave.

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  Nature, Guests, Behavior

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• If one person dreams alone... It is only a dream. When many people dream together... It is the beginning of a new reality.

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  Dream, Spiritual, Reality

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• If we do not honor our past, we lose our future. If we destroy our roots, we cannot grow.

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  Past, Roots, Honor

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• Paradises an only be made with our own hands, with our own creativity in harmony with the free creativity of nature.

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  Creativity, Hands, Paradise

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• The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity.

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  Humanity, Lines, Downfall

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Andreas Hirsch (2011). “Art of the green path”, Prestel Pub

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• Everything is so infinitely simple, so infinitely beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Simple

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• Today we live in a chaos of straight lines, in a jungle of straight lines. If you do not believe this, take the trouble to count the straight lines which surround you. Then you will understand, for you will never finish counting.

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  Believe, Lines, Today

  "Mould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture" by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, 1958.

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• Our real illiteracy is our inability to create

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  Real, Inability, Illiteracy

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• Visual pollution is more poisonous than any other pollution because it kills the soul.

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  Soul, Pollution, Visuals

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• There are no evils in Nature, there are only evils of Man.

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  Men, Evil

  Title of a manifesto, www.hundertwasser.at. May 1990.

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• A person in a rented apartment must be able to lean out of his window and scrape off the masonry within arm's reach. And he must be allowed to take a long brush and paint everything outside within arm's reach. So that it will be visible from afar to everyone in the street that someone lives there who is different from the imprisoned, enslaved, standardised man who lives next door.

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  Men, Doors, Long

  "Window Dictatorship and Window Rights". www.hundertwasser.at. 1990.

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• If man walks in nature's midst, then he is nature's guest and must learn to behave as a well-brought-up guest.

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  Men, Guests, Midst

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• The straight line is ungodly.

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  Drawing, Lines, Straight Lines

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• The line I trace with my feet walking to the museum is more important and more beautiful than the lines I find there hung up on the walls.

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  Beautiful, Wall, Feet

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• Only when architect, bricklayer and tenant are a unity, or one and the same person, can we speak of architecture. Everything else is not architecture, but a criminal act which has taken on form.

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  Taken, Unity, Criminals

  "Mould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture" by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, 1958.

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• Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.

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  Pockets, Disease, Moral

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• We must at last put a stop to having people move into their quarters like chickens and rabbits into their coops.

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  Moving, People, Rabbits

  "Mould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture" by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, 1958.

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• Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.

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  Art, Long, Doe

  "Mould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture" by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, 1958.

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