Mysteries of Rene Magritte

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Mysteries of Rene Magritte
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Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.
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Everything we see hides another thing, we always
want to see what is hidden by what we see.
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If the dream is a translation of waking life,
waking life is also a transition of the dream.
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We must not fear daylight just because it almost
always illuminates a miserable world.
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Art evokes the mystery without which the world
would not exist.
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Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being
what it sees, hears, or knows it becomes what
the world offers it.
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The mind loves the unknown. It loves images
whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of
the mind itself is unknown.
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My painting is visible images that 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.
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Is there really a meaning?

• Its now your turn to interpret the images
• decide if there really is meaning or if it will
  remain a mystery

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Sources

• Pictures
• http//www.doctorhugo.org/synaesthesia/art/false-m
  irror.jpg
• http//www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/malek/Surrealism/ma
  gritte2.jpg
• http//image.www.rakuten.co.jp/ny-poster/img105511
  20235.jpeg
• http//www.etciu.com/MUSEO/MV/PITTURA/MODERNI/MAGR
  ITTE/MAGRITTE7.gif
• http//interiors.intendo.net/magritte/treason.jpg
• http//www.elinterpretador.net/The20Lovers20II.j
  pg
• http//www4.ncsu.edu/ctk/magritte.duree-poignarde
  e.jpg
• http//nsm.uh.edu/dgraur/Images/magritte.redmodel
  .jpg
• Quotes
• http//www.artinthepicture.com/artists/Rene_Magrit
  te/quotes.html
• http//thinkexist.com/quotes/rene_magritte/