Rene Magritte

I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest the decorative arts, folklore, advertising, voices making announcements, aerodynamism, boy scouts, the smell of moth balls, events of the moment, and drunken people.

A thing which is present can be invisible, hidden by what it shows

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.

Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible.

The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture “This is a pipe”, I'd have been lying!

Nothing is confused except the mind.

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present.

An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better.