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Originality is merely an illusion.
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
Escher
Illusion
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Originality
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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 a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term artist rather embarrassing.
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Drawing is deception.
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I might be in the basement. I'll 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. 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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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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Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm.
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I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints.
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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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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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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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All my works are games, serious game.
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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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The things I want to express are so beautiful and pure.
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Wonder is the salt of the earth.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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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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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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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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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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