René Magritte
Belgian · 1898–1967
Surrealist painter whose witty, thought-provoking images questioned the relationship between objects, words, and visual representation.
Wikipedia ↗“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.”
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“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.”
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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.”
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“I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism, and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest the decorative arts, folklore, advertising, voices making announcements, aerodynamism, boy scouts, the smell of naphtha, current events, and drunken people.”
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