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.

- 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

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

- M. C. Escher

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.

- M. C. Escher

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

- 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 have to be wiser than I am.

- M. C. Escher

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

- 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 tell the world what he has to say.

- M. C. Escher

My work is a game, a very serious game.

- M. C. Escher