"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."

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Source : "Escher on Escher: exploring the infinite". Book by J. W. Vermeulen, H. N. Abrams, 1989.

M. C. Escher

#Beautiful Quotes #Trying Quotes #World Quotes

“For those who want to understand the issues of the environmental crisis, Encounters with the Archdruid is a superb book. McPhee reveals more nuances of the value revolution that dominates the new age of ecology than most writers could pack into a volume twice as long. I marvel at his capacity to listen intently and extract the essence of a man and his philosophy in the fewest possible words.”
“Everyone wants a bit of something beautiful.”
“And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are convertible terms. Prohibition, or that which it implies, is the direct negation of the term self-control. In order to save the small percentage of men who are too weak to resist their animal desires, it aims to put chains on every man, the weak and the strong alike. And if this is proper in one respect, why not in all respects? Yet, what would one think of a proposition to keep all men locked up because a certain number have a propensity to steal?”
“My favorite color is rainbow.”

Source : Katherine Applegate (2008). “Roscoe Riley Rules #1: Never Glue Your Friends to Chairs”, HarperCollins
“If I wasn't in a monogamous gay relationship I would have sex with all of you”
“To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.”
“The month of April 2000 will provide an unprecedented showcase for the clean energy options available to individuals, businesses and the government, .. As tens of millions of people take action to support clean energy during Earth Month, the 'New Energy for a New Era' campaign will catapult us toward a clean and affordable energy future.”
“I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, it was people like Elton John, Billy Joel, Ben Folds, and Fiona Apple. As I got older I got deeper into the work of bands like the Beatles, artists like Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Etta James, and Joni Mitchell.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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