Artist Quotes by M. C. Escher

10 Artist quotes by M. C. Escher

M. C. Escher’s musings on artists appear in ten compact statements. The brevity mirrors his precise, puzzle‑like approach, giving a quick peek at how he viewed creative problem‑solving.

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All my works are games, serious game.

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Drawing is deception.

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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…

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I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term artist rather embarrassing.

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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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If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects,…

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By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up…

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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…

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Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that…

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I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, not in a chaos without norms,…

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I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints.

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The regular division of the plane into congruent figures evoking an association in the observer with a familiar natural object is one of these…

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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…

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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…

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Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may…

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In mathematical quarters, the regular division of the plane has been considered theoretically. ... [Mathematicians] have opened the gate leading to an extensive domain,…

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