PAiNTER ✽ ARCHiTECT ✽ ECOLOGiST
Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser
Born as Friedrich Stowasser in Vienna in 1928.
Throughout his life he gave himself several names and changed his actual names a number of times.
"Sometimes a man wants to change his name. {...} One man has one name; when he has many names he is many persons. That is very good. I have many names and am many peprsons. I am a painter, an architect, an ecologist. One name does not correspond exactly to one of these professions. I always have the problem of being only one. There are so many things to do and I always say: I'd like to be ten Hundertwassers to do ten times more things. Although I cannot do that, at least I can have many names."
THE STRAiGHT LiNE iS GODLESS
"If a lion is stalking you, or a shark is out to kill you, you are of course in mortal danger. We have lived with these dangers for millions of years. The straight line is a man-made danger. There are so many lines, millions of lines, but only one of them is deadly and that is the straight line drawn with a ruler. The danger of the straight line cannot be compared with the danger of organic lines described by snakes, for instance. The straight line is completely alien to mankind, to life, to all creation."
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