M. C. Escher Quotes About Mathematics

Quotes about: Mathematics

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

  M. C. Escher

  Education, Book, Math

• Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be made across the boderline between the two respective domains.

  M. C. Escher

  Education, Art, Jigsaw Puzzles

• There is something breathtaking about the basic laws of crystals. They are in no sense a discovery of the human mind; they just "are" - they exist quite independently of us. The most that man can do is become aware, in a moment of clarity, that they are there, and take cognizance of them.

  M. C. Escher

  Men, Discovery, Law

• 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

  Thinking, Delight, Path

• 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

  Teaching, Math, Artist

• For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art.

  M. C. Escher

  Art, Teaching, Math

• Although I am even now still a layman in the area of mathematics, and although I lack theoretical knowledge, the mathematicians, and in particular the crystallographers, have had considerable influence on my work of the last twenty years. The laws of the phenomena around us--order, regularity, cyclical repetition, and renewals--have assumed greater and greater importance for me. The awareness of their presence gives me peace and provides me with support. I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, and not in a formless chaos, as it sometimes seems.

  M. C. Escher

  Beautiful, Years, Law

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