M. C. Escher
M. C. Escher
Maurits Cornelis Escher; 17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist who made mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints...
NationalityDutch
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth17 June 1898
beautiful fun two
I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, not in a chaos without norms, even though that is how it sometimes appears. My subjects are also often playful: I cannot refrain from demonstrating the nonsensicalness of some of what we take to be irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure to deliberately mix together objects of two and three dimensions, surface and spatial relationships, and to make fun of gravity.
life knowledge discovery
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
stars space trying
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.
education art jigsaw-puzzles
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 boderline between the two respective domains.
art thinking impossible
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
lying eye hands
Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can.
art reality ceilings
Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
work games serious
My work is a game, a very serious game.