Rene Magritte Quotes

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• We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
• Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.
• Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible – and I make use of painting to…
• We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs to be covered…
• 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…
• Nothing is confused except the mind.
• 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…
• The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.
• The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So…
• I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest the decorative arts, folklore, advertising,…
• I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense.
• If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing the thing itself,…
• Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.
• Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible.
• The feeling we experience while we look at a picture is not to be distinguished from the picture or from ourselves. the feeling, picture, and…
• A thing which is present can be invisible, hidden by what it shows
• Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that…
• I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence…
• A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.
• An object never serves the same function as its image - or its name.

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