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1898–1972 Netherlands
Maurits Cornelis Escher (17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist who made mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. His work features mathematical objects and operations including impossible objects, explorations of infinity, reflection, symmetry, perspective, truncated and stellated polyhedra, hyperbolic geometry, and tessellations.
Also known as: Escher, M. C., M.C. Escher, MC Escher
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He who wonders discovers that this is in itself a wonder.
As long as there have been men.. ..upon this globe.. ..we have held firmly to the notion of.. ..all of which must continue to be everlasting in time and infinite in space.
I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term "artist" rather embarrassing.
The things I want to express are so beautiful and pure.
Are you sure that a floor cannot also be a ceiling? Are you absolutely certain that you go up when you walk up a staircase?
I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints.
I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.
At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.
The result of the struggle between the thought and the ability to express it, between dream and reality, is seldom more than a compromise or an approximation.
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'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.
It may seem paradoxical to say that there are similarities between a poetical and a commercial mind, but it is a fact that both a poet and a businessman are constantly dealing with problems that are directly related to people and for which sensitivity is of prime importance.
An "impossible cube", after a detail of Escher's Belvedere. Quote of Escher: 'The result of the struggle between the thought and the ability to express it, between dream and reality, is seldom more than a compromise or an approximation.'
I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.
After the first proof [of 'Sphere Spirals'] my high expectations were, as always, greatly disappointed. I am now struggling on - with some feeling of despair - so that I at least achieve a passable result.
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.
As far as I know, there is no proof whatever of the existence of an objective reality apart from our senses, and I do not see why we should accept the outside world as such solely by virtue of our senses.
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 is in itself a wonder. By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics.
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.
My work is a game, a very serious game.
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