Wonder Is The Salt Of The Earth.

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.

I Believe That Producing Pictures, As I Do, Is Almost Solely A Question Of Wanting So Very Much To Do It Well.

In Mathematical Quarters, The Regular Division Of The Plane Has Been Considered Theoretically. ... [mathematicians] Have Opened The Gate Leading To An Extensive Domain, But They Have Not Entered This Domain Themselves. By Their Very Nature They Are More Interested In The Way In Which The Gate Is Opened Than In The Garden Lying Behind It.

Simplicity And Order Are, If Not The Principal, Then Certainly The Most Important Guidelines For Human Beings In General.

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.