Occupation: Artist Birth: June 17, 1898 Death: March 27, 1972
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..
It has always irked me as improper that there are still so many people for whom the sky is no more than a mass of random points of light. I do not se….
I think I have never yet done any work with the aim of symbolizing a particular idea, but the fact that a symbol is sometimes discovered or remarked ….
There is something in such laws that takes the breath away. They are not discoveries or inventions of the human mind, but exist independently of us. ….
By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up in the domain of ma….
Wonder is the salt of the earth..
I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me consorting with all these lear….
What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness..
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….
I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints..
Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm..
For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art..
I am myself: a light. In me you find your fate. So be not blind to the truth shining from my glow..
Although I am even now still a layman in the area of mathematics, and although I lack theoretical knowledge, the mathematicians, and in particular th….
I am always wandering around in enigmas. There are young people who constantly come to tell me: you, too, are making Op Art. I haven't the slightest ….
All my works are games, serious game..
Drawing is deception..
I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check..
Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can..
As far as I know, there is no proof whatever of the existence of an objective reality apart from our senses, and I do not see why we should accept th….
I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days..