Rene Magritte Professions : Artist Born : November 21, 1898 Died : August 15, 1967 Browse All Authors Top 38 quotes by Rene Magritte 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 art 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 doe want feelings The purpose of art is mystery. Rene Magritte mystery purpose art Each thing we see hides something else we want to see. Rene Magritte want Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange. Rene Magritte familiar strange People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images. Rene Magritte symbolic-meaning people looks We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world. Rene Magritte daylight hate world 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 remembrance mind mean 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 simple mean Nothing is confused except the mind. Rene Magritte confused mind 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 stuff lying people 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 trying mean thinking If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream. Rene Magritte waking-life dream art Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. Rene Magritte serendipity motivational art Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible. Rene Magritte visible invisible photography 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 impossible want 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 boys art The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb. Rene Magritte atoms mediocrity bombs 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 mystery feelings looks Life obliges me to do something, so I paint. Rene Magritte paint art Similar Authors Burton Silverman artist Bruce Nauman artist Bruce Conner artist Brom artist Britney Spears artist Brigid Berlin artist All Authors
