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Rene Magritte Quotes

«Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.»
Author: Rene Magritte
«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.»
Author: Rene Magritte
«Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.»
Author: Rene Magritte
«We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world»
«If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.»
Author: Rene Magritte | Keywords: translation, waking
«Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.»
Author: Rene Magritte
«The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.»
Author: Rene Magritte | Keywords: images
«Life obliges me to do something, so I paint»
Author: Rene Magritte | About: Painting | Keywords: obliges
«The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.»
«obsession with the hidden.»
Author: Rene Magritte