Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be made across the boderline between the two respective domains.
I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.
Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm.
It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say.
My work is a game, a very serious game.
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
Originality is merely an illusion.
Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can.
I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity.
I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.
What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
Wonder is the salt of the earth.
Although I am even now still a layman in the area of mathematics, and although I lack theoretical knowledge, the mathematicians, and in particular the crystallographers, have had considerable influence on my work of the last twenty years. The laws of the phenomena around us--order, regularity, cyclical repetition, and renewals--have assumed greater and greater importance for me. The awareness of their presence gives me peace and provides me with support. I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, and not in a formless chaos, as it sometimes seems.
I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, not in a chaos without norms, even though that is how it sometimes appears. My subjects are also often playful: I cannot refrain from demonstrating the nonsensicalness of some of what we take to be irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure to deliberately mix together objects of two and three dimensions, surface and spatial relationships, and to make fun of gravity.
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.
Simplicity and order are, if not the principal, then certainly the most important guidelines for human beings in general.
I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, and not in a formless chaos, as it sometimes seems.
I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check.
Drawing is deception.
If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade.
A woman once rang me up and said, 'Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print -Reptiles- you have given such a striking illustration of reincarnation.' I replied, 'Madam, if that's the way you see it, so be it.'
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