Sorry for not just quoting the bit about the straight line not existing in nature, but I could not bring myself to reduce it all to just that. In 1952 I sp

Sorry for not just quoting the bit about the straight line not existing in nature, but I could not bring myself to reduce it all to just that. In 1952 I spoke of the civilization of make-believe, the one we must shake off, myself, the the first of all! I spoke of columns of gray men on the march toward sterility and self-destruction. The same year I used the term "transautomation" to show the way beyond the rationalism of technocrats toward a new creation in harmony with the laws of nature. In 1953 I realized that the straight line leads to the downfall of mankind. But the straight line has become an absolute tyranny. The straight line is something cowardly drawn with a rule, without thought or feeling; it is a line which does not exist in nature. And that the line is the rotten foundation of our doomed civilization. Even if there are certain places where it is recognized that this line is rapidly leading to perdition, its course continues to be plotted. The straight line is the only sterile line, the only line which does not suit man as the image of God. The straight line is the forbidden fruit. The straight line is the curse of our civilization. Any design undertaken with the straight line will be stillborn. Today we are witnessing the triumph of rationalist knowhow and yet, at the same time, we find ourselves confronted with emptiness. An aesthetic void, desert of uniformity, criminal sterility, loss of creative power. Even creativity is prefabricated. We have become impotent. We are no longer able to create. That is our real illiteracy. - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, "Mouldiness Manifesto: Against rationalism in architecture" https://www.sfu.ca/~andrewf/MOULDINESS_MANIFESTO.htm https://www.sfu.ca/~andrewf/MOULDINESS_MANIFESTO.htm