M. C. Escher

"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, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists. "

"He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. "

"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. "

"My work is a game, a very serious game. "

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

"We adore chaos because we love to produce order. "

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