Friedensreich Quotes & Sayings

I know girls want what they can't have, and they want to be the special exception responsible for taming the boy no one else can, even though they probably won't be. — Gena Showalter

Here's the secret to weight loss: It's all about crowding out, not cutting out. — Kathy Freston

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

Ithing isn't something I do to clear my conscience so I can do whatever I want with the 90 percent
it also belongs to God! I must seek his direction and permission for whatever I do with the full amount. I may discover that God has different ideas than I do. — Randy Alcorn

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 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

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

She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn't taste bad, but she was still unhappy. — Cornelia Funke

This is the funniest book I've ever held in my hands.
Dave Barry, Pulitzer Prize winning humorist and author says about Radical Sabbatical — Dave Barry

Under the stars,I tried to sleep,but for once in my life couldn't.My mutant super power-the ability to nod off at at the drop of a hat,any time,anywhere-had deserted me. — James Lovegrove

I love you," Ty whispered against Zane's lips. Zane smiled and pressed his nose against Ty's cheek. "I love you, too." "I'm going to keep asking until you say yes." Zane smiled against his cheek. "I know." Zane — Abigail Roux

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

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

Beware 'good' main characters who have a limited repertory of culturally acceptable feelings, while your evil bastards have a full range of vivid, passionate feelings. — Bill Johnson

When a man has everything and does not know what more to do, he tries to teach his donkey to talk. — Asne Seierstad

It is quite as difficult to fit one's practice to one's precepts as to fit one's precepts to one's practice. Most people act in one way and preach in another. When the fact is brought to their notice, they assert that it is their weakness, and that their desire is to act up to their principles. That is pretence. People act according to their inclinations and adopt principles; because these are generally at variance with their inclinations they are ill-at-ease and unstable. But when they force themselves to act up to their principles and suppress their inclinations, there is no hope for them - but in heaven. — W. Somerset Maugham

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

Any time you're working in the world of taming animals, you're going to get hurt. But it's a rush that we get. — Cesar Millan

The straight line is ungodly. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser

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

She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become. — Marguerite Duras

Our amour fou with 'The Sopranos' is headed for long-term parking, like so many of its most memorable characters. We'll never see a show like this again. — Rob Sheffield

If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long. — Wendell Berry

I can say that out of 365 days, I manage to do yoga on at least 300 days. — Narendra Modi

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