Quotes by M. C. Escher

M. C. Escher

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 a striking illustration of reincarnation.’ I replied, ‘Madam, if that’s the way you see it, so be it.’

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Reptiles

All my works are games, serious game.

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Artist

Games

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 crystallographers, have had considerable influence on my work of the last twenty years. The laws of the phenomena around us–order, regularity, cyclical repetition, and renewals–have assumed greater and greater importance for me. The awareness of their presence gives me peace and provides me with support. 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 seems.

Beautiful

Law

Years

Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?

Art

Ceilings

Reality

As far as I know, there is no proof whatever of the existence of an objective reality apart from our senses, and I do not see why we should accept the outside world as such solely by virtue of our senses.

Reality

Virtue

World

At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.

Art

Beautiful

Passion

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 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.

Artist

Math

Teaching

Drawing is deception.

Art

Deception

Drawing

For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art.

Art

Math

Teaching

Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can.

Eye

Hands

Lying

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Checks

Children

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Crazy

Deception

Delight

Discovery

Division

Drawing

Dream

Drug Use

Earth

Education

Example

Eye

Facts

Fate

Flower

Fun

Funny

Games

Garden

Growing Up

Grows

Hands

Heart

Hurt

I Believe

Ideas

Illusion

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Impossible

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Quotes by M. C. Escher

M. C. Escher

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 a striking illustration of reincarnation.’ I replied, ‘Madam, if that’s the way you see it, so be it.’

All my works are games, serious game.

Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?

As far as I know, there is no proof whatever of the existence of an objective reality apart from our senses, and I do not see why we should accept the outside world as such solely by virtue of our senses.

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.

For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art.

Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can.

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