Originality is merely an illusion
—M. C. Escher
Topics: Originality
My work is a game—a very serious game.
—M. C. Escher
Topics: Work
I don’t use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough.
—M. C. Escher
Topics: Drugs, Dreams
In my prints I try to show that we live in a beautiful and orderly world and not in a chaos without norms, as we sometimes seem to. My subjects are also often playful. I cannot help mocking all our unwavering certainties. It is, for example, great fun deliberately to confuse two and three dimensions, the plane and space, or to poke fun at gravity. Are you sure that a floor cannot also be a ceiling? Are you absolutely certain that you go up when you walk up a staircase? Can you be definite that it is impossible to eat your cake and have it?
—M. C. Escher
Topics: The Artist
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
—M. C. Escher
Topics: Knowledge, Wonder
We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
—M. C. Escher
Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?
—M. C. Escher
Topics: Reality
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Mark Van Doren American Poet, Critic
- Compton Mackenzie English Writer
- Henri de Montherlant French Essayist, Novelist, Dramatist
- L. P. Hartley British Writer, Critic
- Betty Smith American Author
- Cecil Day-Lewis British Poet, Critic
- Marianne Moore American Poet
- Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari Indian Statesman, Author
- Ezra Pound American Poet, Critic
- J. Edgar Hoover American Government Official
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