My painting is visible images that conceal nothing... they evoke mystery. Mystery means nothing. It is unknowable. Rene Magritte More Quotes by Rene Magritte More Quotes From 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 mathscienceart 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 doewantfeelings The purpose of art is mystery. Rene Magritte mysterypurposeart 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 familiarstrange People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images. Rene Magritte symbolic-meaningpeoplelooks We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world. Rene Magritte daylighthateworld 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 remembrancemindmean 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 artistsimplemean Nothing is confused except the mind. Rene Magritte confusedmind 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 stufflyingpeople 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 tryingmeanthinking If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream. Rene Magritte waking-lifedreamart Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. Rene Magritte serendipitymotivationalart Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible. Rene Magritte visibleinvisiblephotography 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 secretimpossiblewant 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 beautifulboysart The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb. Rene Magritte atomsmediocritybombs 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 mysteryfeelingslooks Life obliges me to do something, so I paint. Rene Magritte paintart
