M.C. Escher Quotes

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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.
• Drawing is deception.
• There is something in such laws that takes the breath away. They are not discoveries or inventions of the human mind, but exist independently of…
• By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up in the domain…
• For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art.
• Simplicity and order are, if not the principal, then certainly the most important guidelines for human beings in general.
• 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…
• I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.
• I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints.
• 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…
• The things I want to express are so beautiful and pure.
• 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…
• I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, not in a chaos without norms, even though that…
• I think I have never yet done any work with the aim of symbolizing a particular idea, but the fact that a symbol is sometimes…
• To tell you the truth, I am rather perplexed by the concept of 'art'. What one person considers to be 'art' is often not 'art'…
• I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.
• In mathematical quarters, the regular division of the plane has been considered theoretically. ... [Mathematicians] have opened the gate leading to an extensive domain, but…
• Although I am even now still a layman in the area of mathematics, and although I lack theoretical knowledge, the mathematicians, and in particular the…
• The regular division of the plane into congruent figures evoking an association in the observer with a familiar natural object is one of these hobbies…
• 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…

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