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Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm.
M. C. Escher
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M. C. Escher
Age: 73 †
Born: 1898
Born: January 1
Died: 1972
Died: January 1
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Mauricio Escher
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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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Wonder is the salt of the earth.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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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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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 am myself: a light. In me you find your fate. So be not blind to the truth shining from my glow.
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I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.
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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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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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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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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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I came to the ... open gate of mathematics. From here, well-trodden paths lead in every direction, and since then I have often spent time there. Sometimes I think ... I have trodden all the paths ... and then I suddenly discover a new path and experience fresh delights.
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I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term artist rather embarrassing.
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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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A woman once rang me up and said, 'Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print -Reptiles- you have given such a striking illustration of reincarnation.' I replied, 'Madam, if that's the way you see it, so be it.'
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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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