Tribute to Escher in Barcelona
Some quotes by M.C. Escher
” I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well”
” I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints”
” 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 am”
” At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important”
” I am always wandering around in enigmas. There are young people who constantly come to tell me: you, too, are making Op Art. I haven’t the slightest idea what that is, Op Art. I’ve been doing this work for thirty years now”
” I don’t grow up. In me is the small child of my early days”
” I play a tiresome game”
” I walk around in mysteries. Each time, youngsters say: you make Op-art too. I don’t know what that is, Op-art. This work I have been making for the past thirty years”
” The things I want to express are so beautiful and pure”
” 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”
(sent by Jane Stewart)
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Sólo quiero preguntar, viene usted aquí? nos lee? nos piensa? o digo más, nos siente? de ser así,,,o mi Dios, grande que permites que la internet me deje estar yo hummilde, ante las palabras que su boca dice, antes las fibras que su esencia deja, antes las manos que son amigas…
con amor…lleno de aire…Jayja
nice to play with got myself dizzy, never gave Escher to much attention..hm see my mistake. love it so much that in this way trough you my horizon get brighten everytime. i learn so much thank you
successful people have been able to do so because they were not afraid of being different……being different is a blessing….although at times it might seem a curse!!!
M.C. Escher – Adventures in Perception
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDBOA7-HvUY&feature=related Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTP1HZqjSaM&NR=1 Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB8D-TYEUyk&feature=related Part 3
Satora
Querido Paulo,
Amém, seguir em frente e olhar para cima ou para frente, talvez seja isso.
Até mais,
Do you write a text every day ? and by the way this picture is wonderful!what do you think about Annie`s question?
Answer please.
Sincerely
Amitis
Любовью сердце в нас живимо,/Хоть и не ведает само,/Какое злато в нём хранимо/И чьё на золоте клеймо.(Иванов)
I’m like Annie, had fun yesterday with this playful piece of art. So returned to play again, opened the map, and wound up visiting cute little Oliver the bird in his beautiful but uninhabited apartment.
A brilliant tribute to Escher’s ‘Relativity’. Interesting and it relates to a Henry Miller reading I was thinking about for two days, and of course connecting your previous posts. Dear Einstein and other thoughts.
Incredible scope for imagination.
Thankyou again Paulo, Gratitude and Love,
Jane xo
Jane,
Did you have a chance to see the movie “INCEPTION” … This pic fits right in.
I had a chance to see a production of Shakespeare’s “A COMEDY OF ERRORS” … the set was done in Escher’s style. Wild Crazy and fun. I would have loved to have seen the backstage workings…because the actors put heads out through doors and windows from all angles of the set and it seemed as if they were upside down or sideways naturally. It was amazing…Escher’s amazing!
Thank you…Love and light to you,
Lainee
O por que? das coisas naõ importa. Crescer interiormente e exteriorizar o que se tem de melhor e compartilhar.Não dar apenas o que lhe sobra. O mundo já está de ponta a cabeça há muito tempo, basta nos adaptar-mos para que não falte equilíbrio para continuar.
I like your books Paulo and I`m iranian
hi everybody,Escher, a great artist, who plays with your eyes and your mind.i remember that he was inspired by old paintings of “moyen-âge” also.this painting could be also realistic in space, like the “space vehicles” of the movie “2001″, and the international station of space now, and also some mathematics theories of the universe,of the space-time,as kind of system.a lot of people say that we have to mistrust about illusion, that true,because we needed a lot of time to understand and to check that the sun wasn’t a circle,and also the earth is round etc…
it’s good to read about such inspiring people!!!
WITHOUT STEPPING ON WHAT’S BELOW US NO WAY WE CAN GET TO THE TOP. IF WE WILL ONLY PULL OURSELVES UP WE EVENTUALLY BECOME WEAK AND FALL DEAD ON THE ROCKS BELOW, THAT ONCE WE REFUSED TO STEP ON.
WE SHALL RESPECT NATURE WITHIN OURSELVES AND AROUND OURSELVES, ALWAYS.
AND NATURE IS DIVINE.
OMG so many ultra-amazing thoughts! O Aleph. Prints, perception, perspectives, precision, possibilities, numbers, letters and musical notes too.
Love and Blessings,
Jane xo
Fun! Crazy! What goes up, must come down?
I want to move the little men around though…
Paulo ayudame porfavor, hace un mes perdi a mi papa y no puedo reponerme de esta inmensa tristeza que me duele
dime algo, necesito un consejo tuyo
Gracias , Paula
Turning the world upside down , and up is down..
and then seeing from above, or is it below??!
Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling? -
M. C. Escher
this is excellent
thank you
Love and Gratitude
Annie
BELLO !! Ciao Rosetta
Fascinating ! I don’t know this artist. I love when he tells people about his art: “All this’s nothing compared to what I see in my head.” Apparently, he has never imposed limits as Erik Weihenmayer. These men, in different areas, Grow the soul of the world and we enjoy. Thank you very much for sharing :)
Light & Love,
A shift in perspectives.
A wonderful panoramic view of … Escher’s painting, but a panoramic image of LIFE, the Eternal NOW and the loneliness of .. incarnated Souls. The unending .. circles and … ladders. Sometimes for a .. minute – a life – in Eternity, we meet other souls playing games or walking with us..
Other’s have just started the ascendancy, some walk into .. darkness like shadows and .. outside, like in the Plato’s cave, there IS the LIGHT. The real life.
Panoramic view= the miracle of .. technology; moving into time and space!! Thank you, dearest Paulo Coelho, for sharing and .. happy Sunday.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx
“May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.”
(Irish Blessing)
Amazingly done Enjoyed it. Nice tribute to a Dutch artist. I had a beautiful poster of Night and day on my room when I was young.
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