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M. C. Escher

Maurits Cornelis Escher (17 June 1898 - 27 March 1972), usually referred to as M. C. Escher (IPA: ['esx-?]), was a Dutch graphic artist. He is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs and mezzotints. These feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture and tessellations

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Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check.

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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

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By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.

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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

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I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity.

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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

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My work is a game, a very serious game.

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Originality is merely an illusion.

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What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.

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