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What does it mean?
The artist feels that his inner child remains active and unchanged from his early days.
In plain terms
He still feels like a small child inside.
What can you take from it?
Keep your inner child alive in your work.

Where it applies

  • creative practice
  • personal reflection
  • play

Putting it to work

  • stay curious
  • maintain playfulness

Questions to consider

  • How have you changed?
  • What stays the same?

Another view

Maturity usually changes perspective over time.

More from M. C. Escher

  1. I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints.

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  2. 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.

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  3. I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.

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