M C Escher Famous Quotes
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
"My work is a game, a very serious game."
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough."
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.
We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
"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."
"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."
What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.
M C Escher Quotations
"If your cat falls out of a tree, go indoors to laugh."
Patricia Hitchcock
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett Marden
I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to loose.
S Hayakawa
"Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected."
Charles Lamb
"Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man."
Erich Fromm
"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
Oscar Wilde
I'd rather be lucky than good.
Lefty Gomez
"Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere."
Brigham Young
Lighter is the wound foreseen.
Cato the Elder