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

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