M. C. Escher was a lot of things including an artist and a mathematician, but one thing that can sometimes get overlooked is how wise he is outside of his art and math. I can tell he 's very interpersonal and intrapersonal like me from researching and learning about him and from some of the things he has said. He has a few quotes that really stuck out to me
One of them is, "My work is a game, a serious game- you should enjoy your work, you should enjoy what you do, but you should also take it seriously" When I think of work, I think of exhausting activities that I don 't want to do like cleaning my room or doing laundry, but M. C. Escher says otherwise. He says that work should be enjoyable, something that you want to do and look forward to
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What Escher did with his life is also very inspiring. His father didn 't want him to become an artist, so after high school, his dad sent him to the Haarlem School of architecture and Decorative Arts, where he intended Escher to become an architect. M. C. Esther 's grades were never good in school, he even failed the second grade and many subjects at the Haarlem School of Architecture and Decorative Arts, but he had a real gift for art. After failing his finals at Haarlem, Escher defied his dad and became an artist. This goes to show that you shouldn 't let anyone stop you from pursuing your dreams.
Escher is more known as an artist than he is a mathematician because not everyone understands the thought process that goes into some of his work, especially his tessellations. Tessellations are a design created by repeatedly using geometric shapes with no gaps or overlaps between them. He said that, "Mathematicians have opened the gate leading to an extensive domain" in a book he wrote called Regular Division