Top 18 Friedensreich Hundertwasser Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. We must at last put a stop to having people move into their quarters like chickens and rabbits into their coops.
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#6. 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.
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#7. Paradises an only be made with our own hands, with our own creativity in harmony with the free creativity of nature.
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#9. 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.
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#10. 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.
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#11. If man walks in nature's midst, then he is nature's guest and must learn to behave as a well-brought-up guest.
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#14. When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality.
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#15. 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.
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#17. The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line.
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