M. C. Escher

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" Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check. "
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Thinking , Art , Impossible
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" Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling? "
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Art , Reality
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" We adore chaos because we love to produce order. "
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Order , Life
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" Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be made across the boderline between the two respective domains. "
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Education , Art
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" Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm. "
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Order , Chaos , Repetition
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" I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. "
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Education , Book , Math
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" My work is a game, a very serious game. "
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Work , Art , Games
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" It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say. "
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Ideas , Believe , Artist
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" He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. "
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Knowledge , Discovery , Life
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" Originality is merely an illusion. "
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Originality , Illusion
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M. C. Escher
born: died: genre: occupation:
17-Jun-1898 27-Mar-1972 Mathematical Art, Optical Illusions Graphic Artist, Printmaker
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