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If you haven't been already, the Escher museum in the Hague is worth it.

Few artists dare to be as different as Escher was, and those who try usually wind up as failures.

MC Escher was a great draughtsman whose work had a very distinct personality and outlook.

I've always felt that people didn't really regard Escher as an artist because his works are too straight forward.

There's probably quite a few people that would love to be called by their first name by Mick Jagger, but clearly Meneer Escher wasn't one of them.

> Escher was reviled by the other artists of his day because they regarded his work as revoltingly ugly.

Most artists who dare to be so utterly unique have little chance of achieving commercial success, but Escher remains one of the most popular artists of the twentieth century.

While it's fairly obvious that Bowman is going through something formless and indescribable, trading it for the surreal visual vocabulary of Escher would have made an much more memorable statement.

I was really hoping I could draw Escher staircases!

I think this is still true, or at least aesthetic objections remain the principal rationalizations for deprecating Escher that I hear from the artists in my life.

MC Escher may not be one's cup of tea, or speak to everyone the way he speaks to me, but to write off and classify and entire world of images as inferior simply because they were meant to be reproduced is just short-sighted.

The "serious" art world has a big problem if it thinks Escher [1] is ugly but Basquiat [2] is beautiful.

I don't 'stomach' higher math (experimentalist), but thought Hofstadter did a good job in "Godel, Escher, Bach".

In this sense, Escher is a subject of ultimate jealousy for any "serious" artist while simultaneously being one of contempt for his popularity.

Escher was classified by the art establishment as "that guy who does those realistic illusion prints" and then was never taken seriously after that.

Douglas Hofstadter's book Gödel, Escher, Bach mentions aspects of self-reference and logical consistency in Escher's works.

I at one time had the email escher@apple.com Hilarity ensued because everyone thought I was Christopher Escher, Apple's chief public spokesman.

Escher was reviled by the other artists of his day because they regarded his work as revoltingly ugly.