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M. C. Escher

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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

So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen.



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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.





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.





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.












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