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Friedensreich Hundertwasser

(1928–2000) Painter Austria

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Friedensreich Hundertwasser was a painter from Austria, best known for Hundertwasser.

Quick Facts About Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Born: December 15, 1928
Died: February 19, 2000
Nationality: Austria
Profession: Painter
Notable works: Hundertwasser
Known for: Hundertwasserhaus, Waldspirale

About Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Friedrich Stowasser, better known by his pseudonym Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser, was an Austrian visual artist, architect and activist.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Grand Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria Order of Honour (Styria) Officer of Arts and Letters Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the State of Vienna

Quotes by Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Our real illiteracy is our inability to create

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Illiteracy

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Everything is so infinitely simple, so infinitely beautiful...

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Beautiful

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A person in a rented apartment must be able to lean out of his window and scrape off the masonry within arm's…

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Able

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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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Dream

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The straight line is ungodly.

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Drawing

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Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the…

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Bases

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The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity.

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Downfall

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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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Chickens

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The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating…

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Creative

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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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Creativity

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Only when architect, bricklayer and tenant are a unity, or one and the same person, can we speak of architecture. Everything else…

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Architect

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You are a guest of nature - behave.

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Behave

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

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Evil

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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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Behave

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Today we live in a chaos of straight lines, in a jungle of straight lines. If you do not believe this, take…

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Believe

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If one person dreams alone... It is only a dream. When many people dream together... It is the beginning of a new…

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Dream

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If we do not honor our past, we lose our future. If we destroy our roots, we cannot grow.

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Grows

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“A person should be buried only half a meter, or two feet, below the surface. Then a tree should be planted there.…

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Dead man

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Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot…

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Able

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Visual pollution is more poisonous than any other pollution because it kills the soul.

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Poisonous

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The line I trace with my feet walking to the museum is more important and more beautiful than the lines I find…

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Beautiful

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