Friedensreich Hundertwasser Quotes & Sayings

Everything is so infinitely simple, so infinitely beautiful ... — Friedensreich Hundertwasser

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. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser

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. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser

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. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Our real illiteracy is our inability to create — Friedensreich Hundertwasser

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. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser

If we do not honor our past, we lose our future. If we destroy our roots, we cannot grow. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser

The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser

A person should be buried only half a meter, or two feet, below the surface. Then a tree should be planted there. He should be buried in a coffin that decays so that when you plant a tree on top the tree will take something out of his substance and change it into tree-substance. When you visit the grave you don't visit a dead man, you visit a living being who was just transformed into a tree. You say, "This is my grandfather, the tree is growing well, fantastic." You can develop a beautiful forest that will be more beautiful than a normal forest because the trees will have their roots in graves. It will be a park, a place for pleasure, a place to live, even a place to hunt. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser

There are no evils in Nature, there are only evils of Man. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser

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. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser

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. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser

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

When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser

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

The straight line is ungodly. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser

You are a guest of nature - behave. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Visual pollution is more poisonous than any other pollution because it kills the soul. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser

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

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