I Could Fill An Entire Second Life

I Am Always Wandering Around In Enigmas. There Are Young People Who Constantly Come To Tell Me: You, Too, Are Making Op Art. I Haven't The Slightest Idea What That Is, Op Art. I've Been Doing This Work For Thirty Years Now.

The Regular Division Of The Plane Into Congruent Figures Evoking An Association In The Observer With A Familiar Natural Object Is One Of These Hobbies Or Problems...i Have Embarked On This Geometric Problem Again And Again Over The Years, Trying To Throw Light On Different Aspects Each Time. I Cannot Imagine What My Life Would Be Like If This Problem Had Never Occurred To Me; One Might Say That I Am Head Over Heels In Love With It, And I Still Don't Know Why.

The Things I Want To Express Are So Beautiful And Pure.

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 Don't Grow Up. In Me Is The Small Child Of My Early Days.