Rene Magritte
Rene Magritte
René François Ghislain Magrittewas a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images. Often depicting ordinary objects in an unusual context, his work is known for challenging observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality. His imagery has influenced pop, minimalist and conceptual art...
NationalityBelgian
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth21 November 1898
CityLessines, Belgium
CountryBelgium
Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.
The purpose of art is mystery.
Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.
If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.
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.
The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.
I like subversive humor, freckles, women's knees and long hair, the laughter of playing children, and a girl running down the street.
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.
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.
Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring.