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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

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


Translation

Translation

(French, German, Dutch)



French
Nous adorons le chaos parce que nous aimons à produire de l'ordre.
M. C. Escher

German
Wir verehren das Chaos, weil wir es lieben, Ordnung zu schaffen.
M. C. Escher

Dutch
We bewonderen de chaos omdat we zo graag orde willen scheppen.



See also 

See also...



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



Quotes for: chaos


Quotes

Quotes about chaos:


One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 





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





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 / 





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






Quotes

Quotes for: order


Doubt always arises from the fact that things are investigated without order.
Baruch Spinoza / 





Beware of anyone who wants to order things. To regulate is always to make oneself master of the others by hampering them.
Denis Diderot / 





Order does not create life.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery / 





The order and connection of the thought is identical to with the order and connection of the things.
Baruch Spinoza - Ethics / 





Everything is ordered in things once and for all, with as much order and agreement as possible.
Gottfried Leibniz - Principes de la nature et de la grâce / 






Quotes

M. C. Escher also said...


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





Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.
M. C. Escher / 





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





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





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







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