35 Quotes by M.C. Escher

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

We do not know space. We do not see it, we do not hear it, we do not feel it. We are standing in the middle of it, we ourselves are part of it, but we know nothing about it.

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

I want to find happiness in the tiniest of things - a minute moss plant, 2 cm across, on a rock - and I want to try to do what I've been wanting to do for so long, that is, to copy these infinitesimally small things as precisely as possible and to be aware of their size.

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

Baarn, 5 July 1964: 'On the train to Utrecht I was suddenly overwhelmed and enormously moved by a sky full of clouds at different levels. I experienced a sense of space and three-dimensionality such as I'd not experienced for a long time. It's possible to suddenly become aware of these things, even in an overpopulated country like Holland. Provided that you are looking up, you'll suddenly see that timeless and unbounded eternity. Do you think it silly, or can you imagine what I mean?

My work is a game, a very serious game.

Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?

I don’t use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.