M.C. Escher Quotes

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• Originality is merely an illusion.
• It has always irked me as improper that there are still so many people for whom the sky is no more than a mass of…
• All my works are games, serious game.
• Wonder is the salt of the earth.
• Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be…
• I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.
• I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me consorting with all…
• Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can.
• I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, and not in a formless chaos, as it sometimes…
• I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term artist rather embarrassing.
• I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat…
• My work is a game, a very serious game.
• Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
• We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
• He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
• Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
• What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.
• 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…
• Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rythm.

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