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M.C Escher also illustrated for books, postage stamps, and murals. Some of his famous quotes are: "The 'flat shape' irritates me—I feel as if I were shouting to my figures, 'You are too fictitious for me; you just lie there static and frozen together; do something, come out of there and show me what you are capable of!'" "I have had a fine old time expressing concepts in visual terms, with no other aim than to find out ways of putting them on paper. All I am doing in my prints is to offer a report of my discoveries." "I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days." "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." "I have often felt closer to people who work scientifically (though I certainly do not do so myself) than to my fellow artists."
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