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René Magritte

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01Undated

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....

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02Undated

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist

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03Undated

As regards the artists themselves, most of them gave up their freedom quite lightly, placing their art at the service of someone or something. As a rule, their concerns and their ambitions are those of any old careerist. I thus acquired a total distrust of art and artists, whether they were officially recognised or were endeavouring to become so, and I felt that I had nothing in common with this guild. I had a point of reference which held me elsewhere, namely that magic within art which I had encountered as a child.

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04Undated

Everyday objects shriek aloud.

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05Undated

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

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06Undated

What he imagines evokes nothing imaginary, it evokes the reality of the world that experience and reason treat in a confused manner.

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07Undated

Between words and objects one can create new relations and specify characteristics of language and objects generally ignored in everyday life.

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