Rene Magritte (René François Ghislain Magritte) Quotes

A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.

Rene Magritte

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• My dream as an actor growing up was always to challenge myself to different genres, different roles, and it's actually rare that an actor's given that opportunity to do that.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Different
  • Dream

• It just seemed like an unattainable dream to go down to Los Angeles and to land a professional working, acting gig on a show that you really love with a character you really connect with. That doesn't seem possible; that seems insane.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Love
  • Character
  • Dream

• Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Dream
  • Interesting

• The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of patriotic newsreels would put the Union Jack jigsaw together again. From then on, I was slightly suspicious of all British adults.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Together
  • Age
  • Dream

• I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Night

• Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Believe
  • American
  • Success

• To me, spirituality means 'no matter what.' One stays on the path, one commits to love, one does ones work; one follows one's dream; one shares, tries not to judge, no matter what.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Judge

• You've got to have a dream... if you don't have any big dreams, nothing happens.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Dream
  • You
  • Dreams

• My dream is to go spend a week on some island with no phone.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Dream
  • Week
  • Island

• I'd like to be involved in 'SNL' somehow. I mean, being a permanent cast member is a stretch! That's pretty damned hard, but to host it one day would be a dream come true. And I would like to play the DC Comics villain Harley Quinn.

  

  Harley Quinn Smith
  • True
  • Pretty
  • Dream

• I wouldn't dream of following a fashion... how could one be a different person every three months?

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Different
  • Dream
  • Fashion

• Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations of unconscious expression, first in the dream and eventually in all the more orderly products of religion and art and morals.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • Art
  • Dream

• One of the great pleasures in writing 'The Dream Lover' was learning about some of the real people who populated George Sand's life. What a cast of characters! And what a pleasure to recreate them upon the page!

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• I have plenty of dream roles because there is so much I want to do, but my dream year would be to be in a single-camera comedy and then, on my hiatus, film a little low-budget indie drama. That would be a dream 12-month period. A dream role depends on having good material and working with people that I can learn from.

  

  Katie Featherston
  • People
  • Good
  • Dream

• I always had a dream about trying to make a movie that had no dialogue in it, that was just music and pictures. I still haven't done it yet, but I tried to get close in the beginning.

  

  Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Done

• As long as Wanxiang exists, we will pursue our dream to make electric cars, whatever the obstacles.

  

  Lu Guanqiu
  • Long
  • Dream
  • Obstacles

• Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.

  

  Jacques Audiard
  • Dream

• I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

  

  Jocko Willink
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• The true simple question of the present dispute is, whether the House of Lords and Court Influence shall predominate over the House of Commons, and annihilate its existence, or whether the House of Commons...shall have power to....regulate the prerogative of the Crown, which was ever ready to seize upon the freedom of the Electors of this country.

  

  Charles James Fox
  • Country
  • Power
  • True

• But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.

  

  Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
  • May
  • True
  • Science

• Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Religion

• I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.

  

  Rene Magritte
  • Dream
  • Canvas
  • Poetic