We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.

I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.

It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say.

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.'

I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.

If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade.