Showing All M. C. Escher Quotes


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Quote #1:   "He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder."
Quote #2:   "My work is a game, a very serious game."
Quote #3:   "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough."
Quote #4:   "Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check."
Quote #5:   "We adore chaos because we love to produce order."
Quote #6:   "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 and spatial, and to make fun of gravity."
Quote #7:   "By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists."
Quote #8:   "What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness."