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,….

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….

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

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..

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. ….

If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and paint….

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

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

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 ….

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….

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

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….

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 illustr….

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

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

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

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

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

There is something breathtaking about the basic laws of crystals. They are in no sense a discovery of the human mind; they just "are" - they exist qu….

Wonder is the salt of the earth..