Born in 1898, Belgian surrealist artist

René Magritte

“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well...”

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

“The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.”

“I do not like money, either for itself or for what it can buy, since I want nothing we know about.”

surrealism art

“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.”

René Magritte

“We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs to be covered in order to be recognized at all.”

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