Rene Magritte Quotes

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

I don't know if I believe in art. I certainly believe in light.

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

Wonder and awe are the diet of the artist and without them the world would be far less meaningful to us than it is.

Art is great. At its best, it engages the intellect and challenges the spirit; it connects us across history and reminds us of our humanity.

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear…which binds together all humanity--the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.

Without art there is no hope.

Art is born in attention.

Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed