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  1. By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the d…
  2. He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
  3. A woman once rang me up and said, 'Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print - Reptiles - you have given such a stri…
  4. I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
  5. To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you have to be wiser than I …
  6. I think I have never yet done any work with the aim of symbolizing a particular idea, but the fact that a symbol is sometimes discovered or…
  7. The things I want to express are so beautiful and pure.
  8. 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 somet…

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