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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 the trouble to count the straight lines which surround you. Then you will understand, for you will never finish counting.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

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About Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Friedensreich Hundertwasser (15 December 1928 – 19 February 2000), born Friedrich Stowasser, was an Austrian painter, architect, and sculptor.

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Alternative Names: Friedrich Hundertwasser • Fritz Hundertwasser • Friedrich Hundertwassser • Fritz Stowasser • Friedensreich Hundertwassser • Hundertwasser • Friedensreich Stowasser • F. Hundertwasser • Hundertwasser (Friedrich Stowasser) • Friedrich Stowasser Hundertwasser • Friedrich Stowasser

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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

The straight line is godless and immoral.

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

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