Rene Magritte Quotes

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and there's more to the universe than you can see with your eyes.

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Reality is modest, it won't be seen naked.

Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.

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.

Appearances are deceptive.

La ve rite , comme la lumie' re, aveugle. Le mensonge, au contraire, est un beau cre puscule qui met chaque objet en valeur. Truth, like light, blinds. A lie, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight which shows the value of each object.

It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day - you can think you know them - and then you fшnd out you hardly know them at all.

We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.

Color deceives continuously.

What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.

Illusions only control you when you think they are real.

The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions.

Scrape the grey sky clean, realize that every dark cloud is a smokescreen meant to blind us from the truth

Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.

Things are not what they seem.

There are some as are what they are. And there are some as aren't what they seem to be. And there are some as only seem to be what they seem to be.

Don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality!

The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.

I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it’s something fantastic. They’re willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy. Even if they know it’s fake they can believe anything. People are accustomed to being told what to believe in.

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.