"An object never serves the same function as……" — Rene Magritte
"An object never serves the same function as its image - or its name."
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29 Quotes by Rene Magritte
Rene Magritte has 29 quotes on this site.
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We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
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Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers…
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Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible – and I…
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We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an…
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My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures,…
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Nothing is confused except the mind.
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To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on…
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The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.
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The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a…
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I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest…
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I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense.
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If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no…
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More Function Quotes
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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by…
— James A. Baldwin
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I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God!…
— Stephen Baldwin
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Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.
— Dave Barry
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I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone…
— Drew Barrymore
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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
— Charles Baudelaire
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In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or…
— Michael Behe
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To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter,…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of…
— Arnold Bennett
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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
— Corrie Ten Boom
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Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic…
— Andrea Bocelli
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This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed…
— David Bohm
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A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any…
— David Bohm
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