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M. C. Escher

Quote of M. C. Escher: I could fill an entire second...


Biography - M. C. Escher:

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

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


Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Ich könnte ein ganzes zweites Leben mit der Arbeit an meinen Drucken füllen
M. C. Escher

French
Je pourrais remplir toute une seconde vie à travailler sur mes impressions.
M. C. Escher



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Quotes for: life


Quotes

Quotes about life:


Don't let words limit the possibilities of life.
Alan Watts / 





As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy / 





Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées / 





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Seneca - De Vita Beata / 





... but we want to be the poets of our life—first of all in the smallest, most everyday matters.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science / 





There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi / 






All about life...




Quotes for: work


Quotes

Quotes about work:


To make a virtue out of necessity; that is the beautiful and great work.
Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain - Propos sur le bonheur / 





The mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Confucius - Analects / 





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





The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.
Jean-Paul Sartre - Dirty Hands / 





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





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






All about work...




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 - Quotation of uncertain origin / 





We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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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