My work is a game, a very serious game.

Originality is merely an illusion.

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.

Wonder is the salt of the earth.

At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.

In mathematical quarters, the regular division of the plane has been considered theoretically. ... [Mathematicians] have opened the gate leading to an extensive domain, but they have not entered this domain themselves. By their very nature they are more interested in the way in which the gate is opened than in the garden lying behind it.

For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art.