I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest the decora…

- Rene Magritte

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

- Rene Magritte

Nothing is confused except the mind.

- Rene Magritte

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

- Rene Magritte

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

- Rene Magritte

The purpose of art is mystery.

- Rene Magritte

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 thoug…

- Rene Magritte

An object never serves the same function as its image - or its name.

- Rene Magritte

Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible.

- Rene Magritte