Friedensreich Hundertwasser quotes

Friedensreich Hundertwasser was an Austrian artist and architect famous for his colorful, imaginative buildings and eco-friendly designs. His works are characterized by irregular forms, bright colors, and a strong connection to nature. He inspired new ways of thinking about harmony between architecture and the environment. Here are 13 of his quotes:

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)

The straight line is godless and immoral.

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

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

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

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

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

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

I close my eyes halfway just as when I conceive paintings and I see the houses 'Dunkelbunt' -glowing in pure strong and deep colours a little sad like seem on a rainy day instead of ugly cream colour and green meadows on all roofs instead of corrugated iron. p.6.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity.

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

This sentence also occurs in Hundertwasser's manifesto "On the Paradise Destroyed by the Straight Line" (1985).

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

I am looking forward to become humus myself buried naked without coffin under a beech tree planted by myself on my land in ao tea roa. p6.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Photo: Hannes Grobe, CC BY-SA 2.5

Occupation: Austrian Architect
Born: December 15, 1928
Died: February 19, 2000
Quotes count: 13
Wikipedia: Friedensreich Hundertwasser