Hundertwasser's comment on the work

Even if man is forced to walk through streets straight as a ruler, his personal, individual trail is never straight, but subject to his momentary impulses.(from: Hundertwasser Architecture, Cologne, 1997, p. 27)I have a bicycle. Paris is big. I want to say that the lines that I draw with my bicycle through this great city are extraordinary. The lines are just as wonderful as all the other lines I cross traced by all the other people. I ride around people and obstacles. I am happy at last to be in harmony and in contact with the others as a painter. These lines, for which I need many hours and which form an enormous circle by the time I come back and which make me tired, are more beautiful, more genuine and more justified than those I could draw on paper. And I dare say that the lines I trace with my feet on the pavement walking to the museum are more important than the lines I will find there hanging on the walls inside. And it pleases me enormously to see that the line I trace is never straight, never confused, but has a reason to be like this in every tiny part. Beware of the straight line and the drunken line. But above all beware of the T-squared straight line. The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity. La ligne droite conduit à la perte de l'humanité. (Text for the catalogue of the first exhibition at Studio Facchetti, Rue de Lille, Paris; written in Paris, December, 1953, from: Cat. Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1980, p. 111)The text in Facchetti's catalogue was written for this picture. The circuitous route a person takes can be plainly seen. In the text I take a stand against the (T-squared) straight line for the first time. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 256)