Rene Magritte Quotes - Page 2

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• Do not accept any explanation of the world either through chance or determinism. You are not responsible for your belief. It is not even you who decides that you are not responsible - and so on to infinity. You are not obliged to believe. There is no point of departure.

  Rene Magritte

  Believe, Departure, World

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• An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better.

  Rene Magritte

  Names, Suits, Objects

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• The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

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  Atoms, Mediocrity, Bombs

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• I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest the decorative arts, folklore, advertising, voices making announcements, aerodynamism, boy scouts, the smell of moth balls, events of the moment, and drunken people.

  Rene Magritte

  Beautiful, Art, Boys

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• I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense.

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  Common Sense, Add, World

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• I need to see the original paintings just as little as I have to read the original manuscripts of books.

  Rene Magritte

  Book, Needs, Littles

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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.

  Rene Magritte

  Art, World, Offers

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• Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.

  Rene Magritte

  Motivational, Ideas, Oneness

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• I like subversive humor, freckles, women's knees and long hair, the laughter of playing children, and a girl running down the street.

  Rene Magritte

  Girl, Running, Laughter

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• No object is stuck with its name so irrevocably that one cannot find another which suits it better.

  Rene Magritte

  Names, Suits, Stuck

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• My investigations resembled the pursuit of the solution to a problem for which I had three data: the object, the thing connected with it in the shadow of my consciousness, and the light wherein that thing would become apparent.

  Rene Magritte

  Light, Data, Shadow

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• I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence to its conclusion.

  Rene Magritte

  Causes, Illusion, Lost

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• Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring.

  Rene Magritte

  Boredom, Painting, Habit

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