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I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term artist rather embarrassing.
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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Originality is merely an illusion.
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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 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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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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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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Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can.
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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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Simplicity and order are, if not the principal, then certainly the most important guidelines for human beings in general.
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I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints.
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Wonder is the salt of the earth.
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I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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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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The things I want to express are so beautiful and pure.
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Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm.
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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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