Victor Vasarely

I was always drawn to science, but I realised from the outset that there was a choice to be made: either you are good at science and you become a scientist, a mathematician or a physicist, or you are good at painting and you become a painter. I don’t think you can do both things at once. So science has always interested me, but in its discursive form, which is accessible to everyone, that is to say in its popularised form. I needed to have a fairly complete intuition of the world. I looked for a certain reading. [...] I deliberately chose a reading that was more scientific than literary. Quite quickly, I noticed a kind of parallel, a kind of analogy between the various human disciplines, a kind of equivalence. [...] There was always a correlation between the sciences and the arts.

Victor Vasarely