Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasserwas an Austrian artist and architect who worked also in the field of environmental protection. His real name being Stowasser, his pseudonym Hundertwassercomes from sto in Slavic languages, meaning "hundred"...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth15 December 1928
CityVienna, Austria
CountryAustria
alone dream
When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality.
disease pockets moral
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.
men guests midst
If man walks in nature's midst, then he is nature's guest and must learn to behave as a well-brought-up guest.
believe lines today
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.
beautiful wall feet
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.
drawing lines straight-lines
The straight line is ungodly.
taken unity criminals
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.
art long able
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.
men evil
There are no evils in Nature, there are only evils of Man.
beautiful simple
Everything is so infinitely simple, so infinitely beautiful...
creativity creative lines
The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line.
creativity hands paradise
Paradises an only be made with our own hands, with our own creativity in harmony with the free creativity of nature.
men doors long
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.
real inability illiteracy
Our real illiteracy is our inability to create