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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

Wonder is the salt of the earth.

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say.

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

So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen.

Simplicity and order are, if not the principal, then certainly the most important guidelines for human beings in general.

My work is a game, a very serious game.

Drawing is deception.

I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term artist rather embarrassing.

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

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

I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints.

Order is repetition of units.
Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm.

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

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.

What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.

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.

Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can.

Originality is merely an illusion.

The things I want to express are so beautiful and pure.

I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check.

I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.

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

All my works are games, serious game.

I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.