M. C. Escher Quotes

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

My work is a game, a very serious game.

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

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, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity.

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

Originality is merely an illusion.

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

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