M. C. Escher Short Quotes

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The things I want to express are so beautiful and pure.

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

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

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I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term "artist" rather embarrassing.

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I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.

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At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.

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To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you have to be wiser than I am.

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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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It's pleasing to realize that quite a few people enjoy this sort of playfulness and that they are not afraid to look at the relative nature of rock-hard reality.

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Lf l am not mistaken, the words "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade.

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Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be made across the borderline between the two respective domains.

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The ideas that are basic to [my work] often bear witness to my amazement and wonder at the laws of nature which operate in the world around us. He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

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