52 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....

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.

What he imagines evokes nothing imaginary, it evokes the reality of the world that experience and reason treat in a confused manner.

If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing the thing itself, but of thinking of the question that is raised.

Between words and objects one can create new relations and specify characteristics of language and objects generally ignored in everyday life.

Everyday objects shriek aloud.

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

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.