The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line.

We must at last put a stop to having people move into their quarters like chickens and rabbits into their coops.

If we do not honor our past, we lose our future. If we destroy our roots, we cannot grow.

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.

Paradises an only be made with our own hands, with our own creativity in harmony with the free creativity of nature.

Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.

A person in a rented apartment must be able to lean out of his window and scrape off the masonry within arm's reach. And he must be allowed to take a long brush and paint everything outside within arm's reach. So that it will be visible from afar to everyone in the street that someone lives there who is different from the imprisoned, enslaved, standardised man who lives next door.