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Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Friedrich Stowasser (December 15, 1928 – February 19, 2000), better known by his pseudonym Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser, was an Austrian-born New Zealandian artist and architect who also worked in the field of environmental protection.

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Our real illiteracy is our inability to create

Illiteracy, Inability, Real

You are a guest of nature - behave.

Behave, Behavior, Guest, Guests, Nature

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.

Civilisation, Disease, Forbidden, Moral, Pocket, Pockets

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

Destroy, Future, Grow, Honor, Past, Roots

Everything is so infinitely simple, so infinitely beautiful.

Beautiful, Everything, Infinitely, Simple

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.

Apartment, Doors, Everyone, Long, Men, Person

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

Poisonous, Pollution, Soul, Visual, Visuals

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

Chickens, Move, Moving, People, Quarters, Rabbits

The straight line is ungodly.

Drawing, Line, Lines, Straight, Straight Lines, Ungodly

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

Creative, Creativity, Godless, Line, Lines, Straight

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

Evil, Evils, Man, Men, Nature

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.

Beautiful, Feet, Lines, Museums, Trace, Wall

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.

Believe, Jungle, Lines, Surround, Today, Understand

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

Alone, Dream, Dreams, Person, Reality, Spiritual

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.

Architecture, Criminals, Everything, Speak, Taken, Unity

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

Creativity, Hands, Harmony, Paradise

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.

Art, Considered, Doe, Exist, Long, Planned

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

Guests, Learn, Man, Men, Midst

The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity.

Downfall, Humanity, Leads, Lines, Straight