I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term artist rather embarrassing. M. C. Escher More Quotes by M. C. Escher More Quotes From M. C. Escher I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints. M. C. Escher print All my works are games, serious game. M. C. Escher artist games art 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. M. C. Escher delight path thinking It has always irked me as improper that there are still so many people for whom the sky is no more than a mass of random points of light. I do not see why we should recognize a house, a tree, or a flower here below and not, for example, the red Arcturus up there in the heavens as it hangs from its constellation Bootes, like a basket hanging from a balloon. M. C. Escher light flower sky By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics. Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists. M. C. Escher artist teaching math I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well. M. C. Escher wells i-believe believe Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check. M. C. Escher By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists. M. C. Escher
