Rene Magritte Quotes

I am so close, I may look distant. So completely mixed with you, I may look separate. So out in the open, I appear hidden. So silent, because I am constantly talking with you.

We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way (there is no good asking first whether the work before you deserves such a surrender, for until you have surrendered you cannot possibly find out.

The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is an extra, and must not be stressed too much. In the modern world, and in Canada as much as anywhere, we are obsessed with the notion that to think is the highest achievement of mankind, but we neglect the fact that thought untouched by feeling is thin, delusive, treacherous stuff.

Art is an experience, not an object.

Art is not about understanding, it’s about experience.

In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.

I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you've had an experience. It's the way you feel about it that is beautiful.

Love is an emotion. It can't be seen or touched, and it is experienced differently by everyone, therefore it is difficult to measure.

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes. The experience of beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way.

I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.

You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it's all energy. Every single thing has energy.

What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.

When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness.

There's nothing like having a bit of somebody else in you.

Often we think love is a feeling: that you spontaneously experience it.

I forget that he is another person; instead it feels like he is another part of me, just as essential as a heart or an eye or an arm.

Who are you?" I asked. "You know who I am," he replied. "I'm yours." ~Clea / Sage, pg. 105

Why don’t I know You?” “Does anyone ever really know someone else?” “You think your cute,” she told him. “You think your gorgeous. But I’m the one guy here who knows better.” “So I’m not gorgeous?” Macey challenged. “Of course you are,” He started away, turned back at the last minute. “But I’m the guy who figured out that’s not all you are." — Double Crossed by Ally Carter

The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call works of art.

Music, at the end of the day, is communicating something - emotion, a feeling, a rite of passage, where you are in life.

Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.

I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

What art makes us see, and therefore gives to us in the form of 'seeing', 'perceiving' and 'feeling' (which is not the form of knowing,) is the ideology from which it is born, in which it bathes, from which it detaches itself as art, and which it alludes.