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
My investigations resembled the pursuit of the solution to a problem for which I had three data: the object, the thing connected with it in the shadow of my consciousness, and the light wherein that thing would become apparent.
We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.
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.
We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs to be covered in order to be recognized at all.
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.
Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible.
I think we are responsible for the universe, but that doesn't mean we decide anything.
Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.
Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible – and I make use of painting to render thoughts visible.
No object is stuck with its name so irrevocably that one cannot find another which suits it better.
I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense.