Magritte Quotes

• I like Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.

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  Billy Connolly

  Artist   Scottish   Magritte  

  "My ambition is to be regarded as a nuisance". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.

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• Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky is day.

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  Joseph O'Neill

  Night   Sky   Manhattan  

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• Our Onirisme movement was a synthesis between the Romantic Fantastique and Surrealism. Dimov and I rejected automatic writing. We loved surrealist painters: Chirico, Magritte, Tanguy and especially Brauner (also a Romanian), who never respected the laws that Breton imposed in his manifests.

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  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Writing   Law   Movement  

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I thought of a high school report I did on the Belgian artist Rene Magritte and a quote I once read from him, something about his favorite walk being the one he took around his own bedroom. He said that he never understood the need for people to travel because all the poetry and perspective you're ever going to get you already posses. Anais Nin had the same idea. We see the world as we are. So if it's the same brain we bring with us every time we open our eyes, what's the difference if we're looking at an island cove or a pocket watch?

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  Sloane Crosley

  School   Eye   Artist  

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• I feel like I swallowed a Magritte. Like on the inside, I'm made of clouds and floating eyes, green apples, and slowly rising men in bowler hats.

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  Libba Bray

  Eye   Men   Clouds  

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.185, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned the corner into Rue Mimosas, looking for the house of Rene Magritte. It was August, 1965. I was 33 years old and about to meet the man whose profound and witty surrealist paintings had contradicted my assumptions about photography.

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  Duane Michals

  Photography   Witty   Memories  

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