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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
Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.
— Rene Magritte
Between words and objects one can create new relations and specify characteristics of language and objects generally ignored in everyday life.
— Rene Magritte
Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.
— Rene Magritte
This is not a pipe.
— Rene Magritte
I need to see the original paintings just as little as I have to read the original manuscripts of books.
— Rene Magritte
A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.
— Rene Magritte
The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.
— Rene Magritte
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
An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better.
— Rene Magritte
People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.
— Rene Magritte
Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.
— Rene Magritte
If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.
— Rene Magritte
The purpose of art is mystery.
— 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
Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible.
— Rene Magritte
Nothing is confused except the mind.
— Rene Magritte
Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange.
— Rene Magritte
I do not like money, either for itself or for what it can buy, since I want nothing we know about.
— Rene Magritte
No object is stuck with its name so irrevocably that one cannot find another which suits it better.
— Rene Magritte
We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
— Rene Magritte
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
Each thing we see hides something else we want to see.
— Rene Magritte
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist
— Rene Magritte
What he imagines evokes nothing imaginary, it evokes the reality of the world that experience and reason treat in a confused manner.
— Rene Magritte
My painting is visible images that conceal nothing ... they evoke mystery. Mystery means nothing. It is unknowable.
— Rene Magritte
I think we are responsible for the universe, but that doesn't mean we decide anything.
— Rene Magritte
Everyday objects shriek aloud.
— Rene Magritte