M. C. Escher Order Quotations

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

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

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.

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

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

I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check. We adore chaos because we love to produce order. I don't use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough.