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Rene Magritte Quotes



Quotes by Rene Magritte - (9 quotes)

Rene Magritte - From the Art category:

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. (Rene Magritte)

Rene Magritte - From the Boredom category:

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. (Rene Magritte)

Rene Magritte - From the Illusion category:

I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence to its conclusion. (Rene Magritte)

Rene Magritte - From the Obligation category:

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint. (Rene Magritte)

Rene Magritte - From the Poetry category:

A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream. (Rene Magritte)

Rene Magritte - From the Subject category:

An object never serves the same function as its image – or its name. (Rene Magritte)

Rene Magritte - From the Surrealism category:

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)

Rene Magritte - From the Unknowns category:

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown. (Rene Magritte)

Rene Magritte - From the Words category:

No object is stuck with its name so irrevocably that one cannot find another which suits it better. (Rene Magritte)