52 Quotes by Rene Magritte

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.

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.

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.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.

The purpose of art is mystery.