Rene Magritte

I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense.

— Rene Magritte

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible.…

— Rene Magritte

We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs…

— Rene Magritte

Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible.

— Rene Magritte

A thing which is present can be invisible, hidden by what it shows

— Rene Magritte

If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing…

— Rene Magritte

“I despise my own past and that of others. I despise resignation, patience, professional heroism and all the obligatory sentiments. I also…

— René Magritte

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

— Rene Magritte

Each thing we see hides something else we want to see.

— Rene Magritte

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.

— Rene Magritte

People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.

— Rene Magritte

I think we are responsible for the universe, but that doesn't mean we decide anything.

— Rene Magritte

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.

— Rene Magritte

I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a…

— Rene Magritte

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

— Rene Magritte

Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of…

— Rene Magritte

I like subversive humor, freckles, women's knees and long hair, the laughter of playing children, and a girl running down the street.

— Rene Magritte

The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is…

— Rene Magritte

Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.

— Rene Magritte

My investigations resembled the pursuit of the solution to a problem for which I had three data: the object, the thing connected…

— Rene Magritte

The purpose of art is mystery.

— Rene Magritte

A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.

— Rene Magritte

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

— Rene Magritte

Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange.

— Rene Magritte

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks…

— Rene Magritte