So Let Us Then Try

Simplicity And Order Are, If Not The Principal, Then Certainly The Most Important Guidelines For Human Beings In General.

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. In A Moment Of Clarity, One Can At Most Discover That They Are There And Take Them Into Account. Long Before There Were People On The Earth, Crystals Were Already Growing In The Earth's Crust. On One Day Or Another, A Human Being First Came Across Such A Sparkling Morsel Of Regularity Lying On The Ground Or Hit One With His Stone Tool And It Broke Off And Fell At His Feet, And He Picked It Up And Regarded It In His Open Hand, And He Was Amazed.

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 Learned Folks, As Though I Were Their Long Lost Brother. I Guess They Are Unaware Of The Fact That I Am Ignorant About The Whole Thing.

All My Works Are Games, Serious Game.

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.'