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.'

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.

By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics…

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

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't m…

: I don't expect everyone to get something deep out of it. Some people can just listen to the music, or get their aggressions out, but I think with any great p…

People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.