Rene Magritte Mean Quotations

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 never been.

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 either, it is unknowable.

If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing the thing itself, but of thinking of the question that is raised.

I think we are responsible for the universe, but that doesn't mean we decide anything.

My painting is visible images that conceal nothing... they evoke mystery. Mystery means nothing. It is unknowable.