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

Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can.

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

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.'

So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen.

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.