Friedensreich Hundertwasser

“Visual pollution is more poisonous than any other pollution because it can kill the soul.”

“The paradise is there, but we destroy it.”

“The straight line is a man-made danger. The straight line is the rotten foundation of our doomed civilization.”

“When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality.”

“An uneven floor is a melody to the feet.”

“The spiral is the symbol of life and death.”

“The horizontal belongs to nature; the vertical belongs to man.”

“A world full of color is a synonym for a world full of happiness.”

“We must give back to nature the territories we have unlawfully taken from it.”

“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 that someone lives there who is different.”

“You are a guest of nature - behave.”

“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.”

“If one does not honour the past, one loses the future. If one destroys one's roots, one cannot grow.”