Hundertwasser's comment on the work

The house is, I suppose, my favourite motif. With me it is like with Egon Schiele, the painter I love so much, who so liked to paint houses. If I start a picture and don't know what to paint, I start either with a spiral or a house. Here I have added an innovation: windows resembling hot-water bottles. The Viennese windows from the sixties usually have a plaster crown above the window. that makes the windows look like hot-water bottles when they're painted. I was already interested in architecture back then; I would have liked it best if the houses were not all alike, but had different-sized windows instead - like African houses. What I can't build, I paint, naturally. In the process I try to have the windows not only of different sizes and at different levels, but also to give them different crowns. Of course it shouldn't look chaotic; there should be real storeys and windows situated above or below one another. But the whole should be humane, in a word. - Green is my favourite colour. Why shouldn't a house be green? If the forest were slowly to disappear because the cities are getting bigger, then at least the houses would be green. I can well imagine green for a house - green ceramic tiles, for instance. Down below in the picture is a spiral as a cloud. Clouds are spirals to me. Anything can be a spiral: eyeglasses, clouds - everything can occur in spiral form. I think the house here is on fire. But I'm not quite sure. I like it when houses are on fire. (from: Hundertwasser, Buchheim Verlag, Feldafing, 1964 and ed. 1973, p. 26)