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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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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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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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Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm.
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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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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All my works are games, 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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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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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 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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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 don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.
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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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The things I want to express are so beautiful and pure.
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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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Wonder is the salt of the earth.
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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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Originality is merely an illusion.
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Drawing is deception.
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