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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

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.



Translation

Translation

(German)



German
Ich versuche mit meinen Bildern zu verdeutlichen, dass wir in einer schönen, geordneten Welt und nicht, wie es manchmal scheint, in einem normenlosen Chaos leben.




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Quotes for: chaos


Quotes

Quotes about chaos:


One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.





We adore chaos because we love to produce order.





Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.





The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.





When you are philosophising you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.







Quotes for: beauty


Quotes

Quotes about beauty:


Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.





All the diversity, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.





All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.





Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.





What beauty is, I know not.





I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.











Quotes for: world


Quotes

Quotes about the world:


The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.





To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.






The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.





Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.





Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.





How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.











Quotes

M. C. Escher also said...


My work is a game, a very serious game.





Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.





We adore chaos because we love to produce order.





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





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.





He who wonders discovers that this is in itself a wonder.












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