“What would I do with the money? I have three sons; they are well off. Even more cash would only make them bad.”
– M. C. Escher, on why he hardly ever bothered to sell his art despite huge demand
“What would I do with the money? I have three sons; they are well off. Even more cash would only make them bad.”
– M. C. Escher, on why he hardly ever bothered to sell his art despite huge demand
From the same 1968 interview: "My work has nothing to do with man, nothing to do with psychology […] I do not wish to be profound at all.”
crudely translated from dutch, fyi! https://www.vn.nl/bibeb-escher/