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Rene Magritte quotes

Belgian Artist November 21, 1898 – August 15, 1967

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Rene Magritte quote: "The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is..."
The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown. Rene Magritte
Rene Magritte quote: "If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is..."
If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream. Rene Magritte
Rene Magritte quote: "Life obliges me to do something, so I paint."
Life obliges me to do something, so I paint. Rene Magritte
He is no longer the pretext for a story: the story itself renders him homage. The works of Fantomas can neither be destroyed nor accept modifications. ...Fantomas requires more of others than of himself ... He is never completely invisible. His likeness can be seen through his face. ... Fantomas's science is more precious than the word. It is not possible to guess it - and no one can doubt its power. Rene Magritte
My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable. Rene Magritte
Rene Magritte quote: "Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist."
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. Rene Magritte
Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible? and I make use of painting to render thoughts visible. Rene Magritte
Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present. Rene Magritte
To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been. Rene Magritte
Rene Magritte quote: "I do not like money, either for itself or for what it can buy,..."
I do not like money, either for itself or for what it can buy, since I want nothing we know about. Rene Magritte
Rene Magritte quote: "We must not fear daylight just because it almost always..."
We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world. Rene Magritte
Rene Magritte quote: "Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees,..."
Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it. Rene Magritte
Rene Magritte quote: "An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find..."
An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better. Rene Magritte
Rene Magritte quote: "The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb."
The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb. Rene Magritte
Rene Magritte quote: "This is not a pipe."
This is not a pipe. Rene Magritte

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