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
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.
People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange.
Nothing is confused except the mind.
The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.
The feeling we experience while we look at a picture is not to be distinguished from the picture or from ourselves. the feeling, picture, and ourselves are united in one mystery.
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.
Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.
Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible.
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.
No object is stuck with its name so irrevocably that one cannot find another which suits it better.
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.