Hundertwasser on Art

Art is worship, a place of edification, of peace, a place where one receives profound help for the soul, where one again finds the right way that has been lost.

Art must be precious, it must create values, not destroy them. One should feel protected with art as if you were really at home.

Art must be beautiful, true and positive.

Art must return to simplicity in our more and more complicated world.

Art creation and beauty have a superior regulation function.

The task of an artist is to preserve this world right now, to correct what has been done wrong, to beautify what has been made ugly and to warn with all his artistic and visionary powers.

By artists all of us are meant who dare to act creatively. To be creative means to be free and to realise oneself in harmony with the laws of nature.

Art means living responsibly. The artist has an obligation to the society he lives in to warn and to look for solutions.

Only he who acts in accordance with the laws of plants and vegetation cannot go wrong. Only beauty in its superior function can show us the way.

Painting is a creative act, and a difficult one at that, because it requires utmost concentration, dedication, honesty, original creativity, unrepeatability.

it is done with the heart and in harmony with creation, with nature – and all these things not intellectually, but “unconsciously”, with feeling.

All this needs time to come about, just as a tree needs time to grow.