"The mind loves the unknown. It loves images……" — Rene Magritte
"The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown."
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Rene Magritte
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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 Images Quotes
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one of 1,175 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
— Saint Augustine
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of…
— Gaston Bachelard
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
— Ansel Adams
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These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty…
— Ansel Adams
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its…
— J. G. Ballard
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I think of images as an immune system and a transit system.
— Lynda Barry
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My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their…
— Rob Bell
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
— Henri Bergson
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Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most…
— Bjork
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My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of…
— David Bohm
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so…
— Niels Bohr
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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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