"Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?"

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Source : "On Being a Graphic Artist" by M. C. Escher, 1981.

M. C. Escher

#Reality Quotes #Ceilings Quotes #Awareness Quotes

“I have but one life to give to adventure.”
“My daughter, the Butterfly Girl, is 21 years old. She is not married. That third verse, in Butterfly Kisses, where I marry her off is only an "artists projection" to when she's 85 and out of the convent!”
“Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.”
“Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change”
“The Galvins like to think about certain things that most people think are impossible, and then we like to engage a process to try to make them possible.”
“No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.”
“Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.”
“Jay Adams may not have been the world's best skater, but he was the man, the real deal, the original, the first. He is the archetype of our shared heritage.”

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