"Hundertwasser's Regentag (Rainy Day)." "I simply believe, that water is a very fantastic element, that gives many possibilities." "Water, rain drops, tears." "Water at sea, water in the rivers, water in the lakes." "Water that falls from heaven and water that falls from the eyes." "It's a fact that water has an insane attraction for me and that I find refuge in water." "An escape route that stays open." "That's why I'm building a ship called Regentag with which I then will move to the water." "That's something very beautiful because of the water." "Don't believe in the straight edge and live in a round house." "Don't believe in the straight edge and live in a round house." "Your walls are so flat without cheeks, without throat without navel, without belly." "All the pigeons stay away." "Don't believe in the straight edge and live in a round house." "With the iron hammer you have to flatten them all." "Children and the sick, wake them all up to life." "Don't believe in the straight edge and live in a round house." "Your windows are so straight just like those next door." "Your doors are so bleak, my eyes slip off them." "Don't believe in the straight edge and live in a round house." "If only the gate was a butterfly, a blossom or a mouse and many fantastical things about which you don't know anymore what I am singing." "Don't believe in the straight edge and live in a round house." "Don't believe in the straight edge and live in a round house." "I wanted to try and paint a picture how I imagine the architecture." "I came up with a system, that is absolutely possible." "To place forests above each other and that the homes, so to say, hang at the underside of the forests." "The homes and houses that hang underneath the forests, so quasi from giant dishes, have their windows pointed downwards and see beneath them the next lying storey, which is forest." "So to say, like from a tree house." "And the title of the picture is:" "The homes hang at the underside of the forests." "Painting and sculpture are now free." "Then nowadays everyone is allowed to make all kind of structures and later exhibit them." "Architecture however, still doesn't have this fundamental freedom." "So I tried what I always had intended namely, to express in painting what isn't allowed on a bigger scale." "The straight line is godless and immoral." "The straight line isn't a creative, but a reproductive line." "In it resides neither god, nor the human spirit but rather the comfort seeking, brainless ant crowd." "The spiral as the beginning of life;" "the spiral as death." "The spiral as cosmic dust and the spiral as solar system." "And so on." "I believe the spiral is the symbol for the beginning of life in general." "So when something starts to move, it's always in the form of a spiral." "I believe the spiral is so to say there where ..." "The spiral is there ... where matter ceases to be, and, and ... becomes something alive." "My spiral isn't a geometric spiral." "My spiral is a biological spiral that can't be measured with pen and paper." "Be liberated from eh ... obstructions and hindrances in the middle and in the countries." "I don't see myself as a half revolutionary." "A revolutionary is a person who fights." "I don't want to fight." "I just want to find a way out for everyone." "And that, without breaking anything." "Also, accomplish an evolution, that won't harm anyone at all." "What is here and also what is there and slowly find a transition to something better." "In Vienna I was never considered part of the Vienna School of Phantastic Realism." "Never, then there were just the surrealists." "I always was extra." "I always was an outsider." "So it's not true that I was or am part of the Vienna School." "But Vienna has a certain fascination for me." "And it's sort of a love-hate relationship." "It's very hard to live in Vienna, because of a common abyss deep intolerance that you encounter heaps of." "But this kind of intolerance again has something attractive." "Vienna stays a city that consistently ignores current problems and wants to ignore them." "It's a city with blinkers on." "But precisely because of that, extraordinary blossoms emerge." "And these blossoms aren't bad." "And maybe this is precisely the contrast between culture and non-culture." "I need Vienna to come to sometimes." "Vienna is a gigantic education that you could feel, but can't feel because it's filled with a totally different kind of mud." "My grandfather was a plate painter." "He painted flower pictures, that are very pretty that partially evoke the Brunnen park." "I own a big painted plate, that portrays flowers." "That's absolutely a treasure." "So far, altogether, I've painted about 700 pictures." "What, in fact, isn't that much." "When I paint, I dream, yes." "It is so that, when the dream has ended, I don't remember what I've dreamt." "The picture however stays." "That is the result of the dream." "But I can't uncover the origin of the dream anymore." "So, when the painter himself, isn't totally astonished with what he paints, then it isn't a good picture." "For, I myself, want to be surprised by my own pictures." "Like to perpetually discover my own pictures." "I switch off a part of my personality" "It comes from somewhere totally different." "I switch off my intellect." "To let something else take effect, that comes from very far away." "Comes from very, very far away." "Being a painter is something tremendous, because painting gives the possibility to create a language and really push forward into regions that are very, very far away from us." "I think with painting you can push forward the deepest into the unknown." "I also believe, that painting is a religious activity." "Also, painting contains colour within itself." "Sculpture needs light to be able to live." "However, painting lives by itself." "That's why an overcast day, a rainy day is the most beautiful day to me." "That's a day I can work." "Venice is in fact already a turning away from the land, a way station." "That is, so to say, an island apart from the land." "You have left land there already." "I'm in fact already on my journey." "When I was in Uganda, I got some termite soil." "That is, broke off a part of a termite mound and brought it with me." "That is of course something totally different." "You can feel it very clearly in my pictures." "It is a colour, that has a peculiar ... magic." "That is a very special brown, that you in no way can obtain when you get brown in a specialty shop." "It already amuses me, that a ship is standing by with which you can travel very far away without having to cross borders." "Because when you have left the harbour, suddenly there are no borders any more." "I built my ship in a way, as I imagine that a house should be." "Gaudy, well not necessarily gaudy, but lively." "and in order to be lively, you need colours." "As a young one, as a young one" "I am like a young dog." "I have to go and have to come because no one owes me anything" "Forty years and clean socks then everyone has turned friendly" "Everyone wants a chunk of me" "No one is angry with me" "As a poor one, as a poor one" "I am like a poor dog" "I am sleeping in the broom closet and am merry without reason" "Comes the money like water the world suddenly becomes so round" "I buy myself a house by the water and am merry without reason." "As a dead one, as a dead one" "I am like a dead dog" "Don't need water, don't need bread am not sick, and am not healthy" "But when they then play the trumpets" "I'll get up and wash my face" "Hear the old clarinets" "And I see the old light." "On such a trip you mainly see the horizon." "The horizon is a great point for originality" "The horizon is something one can cling on to." "It is kind of the only thing." "Everything else you have to make up." "Because the world gets into disarray." "Man really only needs the horizon." "And everything else, he can make up." "When I should come back, I'm sure we will have found a way out."