Rene Magritte famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
-- Rene Magritte

#Hate #World #Daylight
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
-- Rene Magritte

#Motivational #Art #Serendipity
A thing which is present can be invisible, hidden by what it shows
-- Rene Magritte

#Invisible #Shows
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 question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.
-- Rene Magritte

#Mean #Simple #Doe
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 if I had written on my picture â€œThis is a pipeâ€, I'd have been lying!
-- Rene Magritte

#Lying #People #Stuff
Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present.
-- Rene Magritte

#Feelings #Want #Might
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 ourselves are united in one mystery.
-- Rene Magritte

#Feelings #Looks #Mystery
Nothing is confused except the mind.
-- Rene Magritte

#Confused #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 never been.
-- Rene Magritte

#Mean #Remembrance #Mind
Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.
-- Rene Magritte

#Motivational #Oneness #Ideas
I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense.
-- Rene Magritte

#Common Sense #World #Want
If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.
-- Rene Magritte

#Dream #Art #Waking Life
Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well....
-- Rene Magritte

#Secret #Want #Impossible
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, voices making announcements, aerodynamism, boy scouts, the smell of moth balls, events of the moment, and drunken people.
-- Rene Magritte

#Beautiful #Art #Boys
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 to its conclusion.
-- Rene Magritte

#Causes #Illusion #Drag
The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
-- Rene Magritte

#Math #Science #Images Of Love
Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.
-- Rene Magritte

#Art #Paint
An object never serves the same function as its image - or its name.
-- Rene Magritte

#Names #Function
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 in order to be recognized at all.
-- Rene Magritte

#Order #World #Needs
A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.
-- Rene Magritte

#Dream #Poetry #Canvas
Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible â€“ and I make use of painting to render thoughts visible.
-- Rene Magritte

#Use #Painting #Invisible
Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.
-- Rene Magritte

#Art #World #Offers
An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better.
-- Rene Magritte

#Names #Suits
Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring.
-- Rene Magritte

#Boredom #Painting #Habit
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.
-- Rene Magritte

#Mean #Thinking #Trying
The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.
-- Rene Magritte

#Bombs #Atoms #Mediocrity
No object is stuck with its name so irrevocably that one cannot find another which suits it better.
-- Rene Magritte

#Names #Suits #Stuck
Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible.
-- Rene Magritte

#Photography #Invisible

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