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Biography - M. C. Escher:

Dutch graphic artist.
Born: 1898 - Died: 1972
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Netherlands
Netherlands

I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.
M. C. Escher


Translation

Translation

(German)



German
Ich werde nie erwachsen. In mir ist das kleine Kind von früher.
M. C. Escher



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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo Picasso



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Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
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M. C. Escher also said...


My work is a game, a very serious game.
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Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.
M. C. Escher - Quotation of uncertain origin / 





We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints.
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In my prints I try to show that we live in a beautiful and orderly world and not in a chaos without norms, as we sometimes seem to.
M. C. Escher / 





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. I have sometimes heard painters say that they paint 'for themselves': but I think they would soon have painted their fill if they lived on a desert island.
M. C. Escher







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