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Quotes by "Rene Magritte"

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....
— Rene Magritte
Tags: philosophy, art
The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.
— Rene Magritte
Tags: atom, bomb, mediocrity, present
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.
— Rene Magritte
Tags: nothing, mystery, pictures, painting, simple
We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
— Rene Magritte
Tags: just-because, always, world, fear
Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.
— Rene Magritte
Tags: hidden, everything, see, want, always
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
Tags: always, never, mind, you
If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.
— Rene Magritte
Tags: translation, also, waking, dream, life
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