M. C. Escher

I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints.

— M. C. Escher

The regular division of the plane into congruent figures evoking an association in the observer with a familiar natural object is one…

— M. C. Escher

I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check.

— M. C. Escher

For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art.

— M. C. Escher

I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me…

— M. C. Escher

As far as I know, there is no proof whatever of the existence of an objective reality apart from our senses, and…

— M. C. Escher

Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that…

— M. C. Escher

In mathematical quarters, the regular division of the plane has been considered theoretically. ... [Mathematicians] have opened the gate leading to an…

— M. C. Escher

I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check. We adore chaos because we love to produce order. I don't…

— M. C. Escher

The things I want to express are so beautiful and pure.

— M. C. Escher

To tell you the truth, I am rather perplexed by the concept of 'art'. What one person considers to be 'art' is…

— M. C. Escher

To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you…

— M. C. Escher

Although I am even now still a layman in the area of mathematics, and although I lack theoretical knowledge, the mathematicians, and…

— M. C. Escher

It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to…

— M. C. Escher

All my works are games, serious game.

— M. C. Escher

I am myself: a light. In me you find your fate. So be not blind to the truth shining from my glow.

— M. C. Escher

I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.

— M. C. Escher

Wonder is the salt of the earth.

— M. C. Escher

I think I have never yet done any work with the aim of symbolizing a particular idea, but the fact that a…

— M. C. Escher

I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and…

— M. C. Escher

Drawing is deception.

— M. C. Escher

I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.

— M. C. Escher

Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm.

— M. C. Escher

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

— M. C. Escher

I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term artist rather embarrassing.

— M. C. Escher