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I Try In My Prints To Testify That We Live In A Beautiful And Orderly World, Not In A Chaos Without Norms, Even Though That Is How It Sometimes Appears. My Subjects Are Also Often Playful: I Cannot Refrain From Demonstrating The Nonsensicalness Of Some Of What We Take To Be Irrefutable Certainties. It Is, For Example, A Pleasure To Deliberately Mix Together Objects Of Two And Three Dimensions, Surface And Spatial Relationships, And To Make Fun Of Gravity.

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.

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.

My Work Is A Game, A Very Serious Game.

To Have Peace With This Peculiar Life; To Accept What We Do Not Understand; To Wait Calmly For What Awaits Us, You Have To Be Wiser Than I Am.