Quotes by Rene Magritte

Rene Magritte

A thing which is present can be invisible, hidden by what it shows

Invisible

Shows

A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.

Canvas

Dream

Poetry

An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better.

Names

Objects

Suits

An object never serves the same function as its image – or its name.

Function

Names

Objects

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

Art

Motivational

Serendipity

Do not accept any explanation of the world either through chance or determinism. You are not responsible for your belief. It is not even you who decides that you are not responsible – and so on to infinity. You are not obliged to believe. There is no point of departure.

Believe

Departure

World

Each thing we see hides something else we want to see.

Want

Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible.

Invisible

Photography

Visible

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.

Impossible

Secret

Want

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.

Doe

Feelings

Want

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Believe

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Book

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Canvas

Causes

Common Sense

Confused

Data

Daylight

Departure

Doe

Dream

Familiar

Feelings

Function

Girl

Habit

Hate

Ideas

Illusion

Impossible

Invisible

Laughter

Light

Littles

Looks

Lost

Lying

Math

Mean

Mediocrity

Mind

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Mystery

Names

Needs

Objects

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Quotes by Rene Magritte

Rene Magritte

A thing which is present can be invisible, hidden by what it shows

A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.

An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better.

An object never serves the same function as its image – or its name.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

Do not accept any explanation of the world either through chance or determinism. You are not responsible for your belief. It is not even you who decides that you are not responsible – and so on to infinity. You are not obliged to believe. There is no point of departure.

Each thing we see hides something else we want to see.

Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible.

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.

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