Rene Magritte

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

— Rene Magritte

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

— Rene Magritte

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Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. ↗

— Rene Magritte

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

— Rene Magritte

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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

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

— Rene Magritte

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

— Rene Magritte

#being #hears #knows #offers #only

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint. ↗

— Rene Magritte

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The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb. ↗

— Rene Magritte

#atom bomb #bomb #mediocrity #present