List of Rene Magritte Quotes

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.

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.

I Like Subversive Humor, Freckles, Women's Knees And Long Hair, The Laughter Of Playing Children, And A Girl Running Down The Street.

An Object Is Not So Attached To Its Name That We Cannot Find Another One That Would Suit It Better.

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.

I Need To See The Original Paintings Just As Little As I Have To Read The Original Manuscripts Of Books.

Those Who Become Entangled In These False Ideas Are Prevented From Perceiving The Integral Oneness.

Only Thought Can Resemble. It Resembles By Being What It Sees, Hears, Or Knows; It Becomes What The World Offers It.

No Object Is Stuck With Its Name So Irrevocably That One Cannot Find Another Which Suits It Better.

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.

Do Not Accept Any Explanation Of The World Either Through Chance Or Determinism. You Are Not Responsible For Your Belief. It Is Not Even You Who Decides That You Are Not Responsible - And So On To Infinity. You Are Not Obliged To Believe. There Is No Point Of Departure.

I Want Nevertheless To Add That For Me The World Is A Defiance Of Common Sense.