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Drawing is deception.
M. C. Escher
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M. C. Escher
Age: 73 †
Born: 1898
Born: January 1
Died: 1972
Died: January 1
Artist
Drawer
Engraver
Graphic Artist
Illusionist
Illustrator
Lithographer
Painter
Photographer
Postage Stamp Designer
Printmaker
Ljouwert
Maurits Cornelis Escher
Mauricio Escher
Mauk Escher
M.C. Escher
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Deception
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I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.
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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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Originality is merely an illusion.
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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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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 might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check.
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If I am not mistaken, the word 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 might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check. We adore chaos because we love to produce order. I don't use drugs my dreams are frightening enough.
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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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Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm.
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Wonder is the salt of the earth.
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The things I want to express are so beautiful and pure.
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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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For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art.
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Simplicity and order are, if not the principal, then certainly the most important guidelines for human beings in general.
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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