René Magritte

I don't explain my paintings; I let them speak.

The apple in my paintings represents temptation and knowledge.

To see is to believe, but to imagine is to know.

My work is a rebellion against the obvious.

The sky is not always blue; sometimes it's green.

In dreams, we find the truth of waking life.

Art is the lie that tells the truth.

The invisible is more real than the visible.

I paint enigmas, not puzzles.

Life is a series of images that we interpret.

The mirror reflects, but does not reveal.

Surrealism is poetry in painting.

What we call reality is an illusion.

The artist must surprise himself first.

In my paintings, nothing is what it seems.

The essence of art is mystery.

Life's profundity lies in its contradictions.

I have always been interested in the paradox.

Painting is thinking with images.