Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, (Virgil’s Muse), and The Human Condition (Detail) - René Magritte

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, The Reader Wreathed with Flowers (Virgil’s Muse), 1845

“Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.”

—	René Margritte

“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see”
—      René Margritte

“If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.”
—      René Magritte 

“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.”
—      René Margritte

 “The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.”
—      René Magritte

 “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”
—      René Magritte 

 “We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.”
—      René Margritte

“Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.”

The Human Condition (Detail)  -  René Magritte 1935
Belgian 1898-1967

La condition humaine  -  René Magritte  1934
Belgian 1898-1967