Friedensreich Hundertwasser Professions : Artist Born : December 15, 1928 Died : February 19, 2000 Browse All Authors Top 20 quotes by Friedensreich Hundertwasser You are a guest of nature - behave. Friedensreich Hundertwasser behavior guests nature If one person dreams alone... It is only a dream. When many people dream together... It is the beginning of a new reality. Friedensreich Hundertwasser spiritual dream reality If we do not honor our past, we lose our future. If we destroy our roots, we cannot grow. Friedensreich Hundertwasser honor roots past 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 creativity lines creative Visual pollution is more poisonous than any other pollution because it kills the soul. Friedensreich Hundertwasser pollution visuals soul Paradises an only be made with our own hands, with our own creativity in harmony with the free creativity of nature. Friedensreich Hundertwasser paradise creativity hands The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity. Friedensreich Hundertwasser downfall lines humanity Our real illiteracy is our inability to create Friedensreich Hundertwasser illiteracy inability real 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 doors men long 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 midst guests men Everything is so infinitely simple, so infinitely beautiful. Friedensreich Hundertwasser simple beautiful 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 lines today believe We must at last put a stop to having people move into their quarters like chickens and rabbits into their coops. Friedensreich Hundertwasser rabbits people moving 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 wall feet beautiful 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 moral pockets disease The straight line is ungodly. Friedensreich Hundertwasser straight-lines drawing lines There are no evils in Nature, there are only evils of Man. Friedensreich Hundertwasser evil men 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 doe long art 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 unity criminals taken When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality. Friedensreich Hundertwasser alone beginning together reality Similar Authors Burton Silverman artist Bruce Nauman artist Bruce Conner artist Brom artist Britney Spears artist Brigid Berlin artist All Authors
