I tend more and more to regard the objective existence of all events as a form of impure imagination – hence my inverted commas around “reality.” Whatever the mind grasps, it does so with the assistance of creative fancy, that drop of water on a glass slide which gives distinctness and relief to the observed organism.
Interview by Allene Talmey, Vogue, 1969
Lithograph by M.C. Escher: Hand with Reflecting Sphere (1935)
