Asks Quote by Rene Magritte

My painting is visible images that conceal nothing... they evoke mystery. Mystery means nothing. It is unknowable.

— Rene Magritte

“I don't think painters have the answers about a painting except the painting itself. Anyway, a painting has to have some kind of mystery…

— Elizabeth Kostova

There is no mystery whatever — only inability to perceive the obvious.

— Wei Wu Wei

Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that…

— Cennino Cennini

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people

— Edgar Degas

There is nothing as mysterious as something clearly seen

— Robert Frost

This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen, hiding themselves…

— Cennino Cennini

What is not visible does not mean nothing.

— Rio Takabha

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

— Georges Braque

The first mystery is simply that there is a mystery, a mystery that can never be explained or understood, only encountered from time to…

— Lawrence Kushner

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.

— Garry Winogrand

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

— John Berger