René Magritte

“The familiar becomes strange when we look at it with fresh eyes.”

“Words and images have a mysterious relationship that I try to capture.”

“A painted object is not the object itself; it is a representation that makes us think of the object.”

“The function of painting is to make poetry visible.”

“My painting is visible images which conceal nothing; they evoke mystery.”

“To be a surrealist means to barter the soul for the unknown.”

“The real is not what is seen, but what is felt.”

“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.”