Rene Magritte Quotes
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Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange.
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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!
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Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible.
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People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.
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We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
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Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
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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.
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The purpose of art is mystery.
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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.
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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.
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Each thing we see hides something else we want to see.
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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.
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A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.
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Nothing is confused except the mind.