Quotes by Rene Magritte - Page 1

The purpose of art is mystery.
Rene Magritte / Artist
Art
Mystery
Purpose
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Nothing is confused except the mind.
Rene Magritte / Artist
Confused
Mind
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A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.
Rene Magritte / Artist
Dream
Poetry
Canvas
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Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.
Rene Magritte / Artist
Art
Smile
Paint
Life Me Something
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The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.
Rene Magritte / Artist
Atom Bomb
Atoms
Bombs
Mediocrity
Atom
Bomb
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Each thing we see hides something else we want to see.
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Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible.
Rene Magritte / Artist
Invisible
Photography
Visible
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Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
Rene Magritte / Artist
Art
Motivational
Smile
Mystery
Serendipity
World
Exist
Without
Which
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A thing which is present can be invisible, hidden by what it shows
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Invisible
Shows
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An object never serves the same function as its image - or its name.
Rene Magritte / Artist
Function
Names
Objects
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I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense.
Rene Magritte / Artist
Add
Common Sense
World
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We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
Rene Magritte / Artist
Daylight
Hate
Miserable
World
Almost
Illuminates
Just Because
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I think we are responsible for the universe, but that doesn't mean we decide anything.
Rene Magritte / Artist
Mean
Responsible
Thinking
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Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.
Rene Magritte / Artist
Another
Hidden
See
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If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.
Rene Magritte / Artist
Art
Dream
Waking
Waking Life
Translation
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People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.
Rene Magritte / Artist
Looks
People
Symbolic Meaning
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No object is stuck with its name so irrevocably that one cannot find another which suits it better.
Rene Magritte / Artist
Names
Stuck
Suits
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Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.
Rene Magritte / Artist
Motivational
Ideas
Oneness
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An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better.
Rene Magritte / Artist
Names
Objects
Suits
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I need to see the original paintings just as little as I have to read the original manuscripts of books.
Rene Magritte / Artist
Book
Littles
Needs
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Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange.
Rene Magritte / Artist
Familiar
Strange
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My painting is visible images that conceal nothing... they evoke mystery. Mystery means nothing. It is unknowable.
Rene Magritte / Artist
Mean
Mystery
Painting
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Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.
Rene Magritte / Artist
Art
Offers
World
Hears
Resemble
Sees
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The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
Rene Magritte / Artist
Art
Science
Math
Mind
Unknown
Since
Itself
Loves
Images
Meaning
Meaning Of
Whose
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I like subversive humor, freckles, women's knees and long hair, the laughter of playing children, and a girl running down the street.
Rene Magritte / Artist
Girl
Running
Children
Laughter
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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 / Artist
Causes
Illusion
Lost
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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 / Artist
Mean
Mind
Remembrance
Surrealist
Seen
Mind Always Your
Lookout
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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 / Artist
Impossible
Secret
Want
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Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible – and I make use of painting to render thoughts visible.
Rene Magritte / Artist
Invisible
Painting
Use
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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 / Artist
Needs
Order
World
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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 / Artist
Mean
Thinking
Trying
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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 / Artist
Feelings
Looks
Mystery
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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 representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture “This is a pipe”, I'd have been lying!
Rene Magritte / Artist
Lying
People
Stuff
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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 / Artist
Boredom
Habit
Painting
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My investigations resembled the pursuit of the solution to a problem for which I had three data: the object, the thing connected with it in the shadow of my consciousness, and the light wherein that thing would become apparent.
Rene Magritte / Artist
Data
Light
Shadow
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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 / Artist
Artist
Evoke
Mean
Mystery
Oneself
Painting
Simple
Visible
Ask
Nothing
Anything
Does
Conceal
Either
Images
Indeed
Pictures
Question
Sees
Unknowable
Which
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Do not accept any explanation of the world either through chance or determinism. You are not responsible for your belief. It is not even you who decides that you are not responsible - and so on to infinity. You are not obliged to believe. There is no point of departure.
Rene Magritte / Artist
Believe
Departure
World
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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 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 / Artist
Art
Beautiful
Boys
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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 / Artist
Doe
Feelings
Want
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