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

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

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.'

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

I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints.

As far as I know, there is no proof whatever of the existence of an objective reality apart from our senses, and I do not see why we should accept the outside world as such solely by virtue of our senses.

I came to the ... open gate of mathematics. From here, well-trodden paths lead in every direction, and since then I have often spent time there. Sometimes I think ... I have trodden all the paths ... and then I suddenly discover a new path and experience fresh delights.