M. C. Escher Quotes
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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After the first proof of 'Sphere Spirals' my high expectations were, as always, greatly disappointed. I am now struggling on - with some feeling of despair - so that I at least achieve a passable result.
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Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
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I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.
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I am always wandering around in enigmas. There are young people who constantly come to tell me: you, too, are making Op Art. I haven't the slightest idea what that is, Op Art. I've been doing this work for thirty years now.
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lf l am not mistaken, the words 'art' and 'artist' did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade.
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I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.
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To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you have to be wiser than I am.
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It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say.
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Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can.
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I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity.
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As far as I know, there is no proof whatever of the existence of an objective reality apart from our senses, and I do not see why we should accept the outside world as such solely by virtue of our senses.
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So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen.
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My work is a game, a very serious game.
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At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.
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I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints.
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As long as there have been men.. ..upon this globe.. ..we have held firmly to the notion of.. ..all of which must continue to be everlasting in time and infinite in space.
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I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me consorting with all these learned folks, as though I were their long lost brother. I guess they are unaware of the fact that I am ignorant about the whole thing.
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The things I want to express are so beautiful and pure.
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I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term 'artist' rather embarrassing.
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When someone forgets himself, this by no means makes him altruistic; when a thinking person forgets himself, he immediately also forgets his fellowman, he loses himself and his humanity by becoming engrossed in his subject. Thus he is in a sense more contemplative than a feeling person.