Quote of M. C. Escher - My work is a game, a...

Biography - M. C. Escher:

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

Quote

My work is a game, a very serious game.”
M. C. Escher

Translation

(French, German)

Mon travail est un jeu, un jeu très sérieux.”
M. C. Escher

Meine Arbeit ist ein Spiel, ein sehr ernstes Spiel.”
M. C. Escher

Quotes about work:

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
Confucius

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings

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Sowing is not so hard as reaping.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

work

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.”
Quintus Horatius Flaccus

work

The fruits of labor are the sweetest of all pleasures.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

When we work for material ends alone, we build ourselves our own prison.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Wind, Sand and Stars

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Quotes for: game:

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.”
Winston Churchill

Play is experimenting with chance.”
Novalis - Fragments

A constant element of enjoyment must be mingled with our studies, so that we think of learning as a game rather than a form of drudgery, for no activity can be continued for long if it does not to some extent afford pleasure to the participant.”
Desiderius Erasmus

This is the real secret of life: to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now, and instead of calling it "work," realize that this is play.”
Alan Watts

Let a child play and mix instruction with play.”
François Fénelon - Treatise on the Education of Girls

M. C. Escher also said...

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.”
M. C. Escher

chaos

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

artist

I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints.”
M. C. Escher

He who wonders discovers that this is in itself a wonder.”
M. C. Escher

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

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