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“I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints.”

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M.C. Escher was a Dutch artist renowned for his unique woodcuts and graphic works. His works are characterized by their impossible geometric shapes and symmetry, showcasing his rich imagination and innovative spirit. more

“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 is how it sometimes appears. My subjects are also often playful: I cannot refrain from demonstrating the nonsensicalness of some of what we take to be irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure to deliberately mix together objects of two and three dimensions, surface and spatial relationships, and to make fun of gravity.”

“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 discovered or remarked upon is valuable for me because it makes it easier to accept the inexplicable nature of my hobbies, which constantly preoccupy me.”

Thinking Ideas Sometimes Done Facts Accepting Particular Easier Aim Valuable Symbols Hobbies Inexplicable

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“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' to another. 'Beautiful' and 'ugly' are old-fashioned concepts that are seldom applied these days; perhaps justifiably, who knows? Something repulsive, which gives you a moral hangover, and hurts your ears or eyes, may well be art. Only 'kitsch' is not art - we're all agreed about that. Indeed, but what is 'kitsch'? If only I knew!”

Ifs Knows Giving Wells May Persons Art Eye Beautiful Hurt Moral Art Is Concepts Ears Ugly These Days Old Fashioned Hangover Kitsch Perplexed

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“I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.”

Children Grows Growing Up Small Child

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“In mathematical quarters, the regular division of the plane has been considered theoretically. ... [Mathematicians] have opened the gate leading to an extensive domain, but they have not entered this domain themselves. By their very nature they are more interested in the way in which the gate is opened than in the garden lying behind it.”

Way Has Beens Lying Behinds Garden Mathematical Planes Gates Division Quarters Mathematician Domain

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“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.”

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