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
order repetition
Order is repetition of units.Chaos is multiplicity without rythm.
funny dream order
I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check. We adore chaos because we love to produce order. I don't use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough.
order simplicity important
Simplicity and order are, if not the principal, then certainly the most important guidelines for human beings in general.
order chaos repetition
Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm.
beautiful order years
Although I am even now still a layman in the area of mathematics, and although I lack theoretical knowledge, the mathematicians, and in particular the crystallographers, have had considerable influence on my work of the last twenty years. The laws of the phenomena around us--order, regularity, cyclical repetition, and renewals--have assumed greater and greater importance for me. The awareness of their presence gives me peace and provides me with support. I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, and not in a formless chaos, as it sometimes seems.
inspirational life order
We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
fifty pleasant seems strange work
I've been doing this kind of work for over fifty years now, and nothing in this strange and frightening world seems more pleasant to me.
achieve attempt upstairs
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.
catch certain enigma eye
There has to be a certain enigma in it, which does not immediately catch the eye
building possible untrained
At first I had no idea at all of the possibility of systematically building up my figures. I did not know ... this was possible for someone untrained in mathematics,
believe i-believe wells
I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.
children growing-up grows
I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.
math artist training
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. 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.
heart artist soul
I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term artist rather embarrassing.