Rene Francois Ghislain Magritte Quotes

• Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.

  Rene Francois Ghislain Magritte

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Everything, Another, Hidden, Philosophy

• If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.

  Rene Francois Ghislain Magritte

  Topics in Dream, Uncategorized

  Tags in dream, Working

• 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 Francois Ghislain Magritte

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Simple, Nothing, Mean

• Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

  Rene Francois Ghislain Magritte

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Mystery

• Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

  Rene Francois Ghislain Magritte

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Paint, Obliges

• Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.

  Rene Francois Ghislain Magritte

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thought, Become

• The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

  Rene Francois Ghislain Magritte

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mind, Meaning

• The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

  Rene Francois Ghislain Magritte

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mediocrity, Present

• 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 Francois Ghislain Magritte

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mind, Means

• We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.

  Rene Francois Ghislain Magritte

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Miserable

Rene Francois Ghislain Magritte (10)

Birth:	21st November, 1989
Death:	15th August, 1967
Nationality:	Belgian
Profession:	Painter

About

René François Ghislain Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images that fell under the umbrella of surrealism. His work challenges observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality.

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