"It is not my aim to bluff. I have decided to tell man that he has lost his free creativity, his proper individuality, his responsibility towards the universe and his trust in his personal, god-like possibilities and that he must regain all this if his life is to have any meaning. Only then would man again rise to be equal to the variety of events, his thoughts and acts would again be as manifold as flowers, or trees, or the incredible stucture on leaves or on the back of his own hand." -Friedensreich Hundertwasser, writing to Viennese critic Jorg Lampe, 29 January 1953