René Magritte

This is not a pipe.

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

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

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

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

The present moment is the only eternity there is.

The world is a mystery, and art is a way of making that mystery visible.

The visible does not hide anything, it is invisible.

The true meaning of things is not in the things themselves, but in our relationship to them.

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 not been.

The art of painting is a way of thinking, not a way of seeing.

The only way to understand art is to be open to its mystery.

The world is full of magic, and art is a way of revealing it.

The function of painting is to make visible the invisible.

The visible world is only a pretext for the invisible.

The value of art is in its ability to make us question reality.

The mystery is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing; they evoke mystery and, indeed, when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question, 'What does that mean?'. It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing, it is unknowable.

The only way to escape the prison of reality is to enter the prison of imagination.

Art is a revolt against fate.