"If one looks at a thing with the……" — Rene Magritte
"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, but of thinking of the question that is raised."
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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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Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.
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