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Quote by M. C. Escher

“I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me consorting with all these learned folks, as though I were their long lost brother. I guess they are unaware of the fact that I am ignorant about the whole thing.”

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M. C. Escher

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

“Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as we have succeeded in unraveling fully the natural laws which govern reality, we find them to be expressible by mathematical relations of surprising simplicity and architectonic perfection. It seems to me to be one of the chief objects of mathematical instruction to develop the faculty of perceiving this simplicity and harmony.”

Source: Space, Time, Matter

“Mathematics and art are quite different. We could not publish so many papers that used, repeatedly, the same idea and still command the respect of our colleagues.”

Art Stills Ideas Different Used Beauty Paper Mathematics Command Aesthetic Colleagues Papers Publish

Author:Antoni Zygmund

“When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.”

Firsts Hard Albums

Author:Adam Ant

“I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow without hindrance in their natural course.”

Should Ideas Political Courses Imagination Natural Creativity Creative Essentials Intellectual Flow Dislike Frontiers Catalyst Hindrance Creative Thought

Author:Michael Atiyah

“You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will be able to see in these the likeness of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, woods, great plains, hills and valleys in great variety; and expressions of faces and clothes and an infinity of things which you will be able to reduce to their complete and proper forms. In such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of bells, in whose stroke you may find every named word which you can imagine.”

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