Quotes from M. C. Escher

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

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.

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

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.

What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.

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

Marisha Pessl

I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check. We adore chaos because we love to produce order. I don't use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough.

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

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.

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

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

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.

Drawing is deception.

All my works are games, serious game.

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

By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

Originality is merely an illusion.

My work is a game, a very serious game.