René Magritte and His Famous Paintings – A Belgian Surrealist Artist
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René François Ghislain Magritte (21 November 1898 — 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images that fell under the umbrella of surrealism. His work challenges observers’ preconditioned perceptions of reality.

Magritte was born in Lessines, in the province of Hainaut, in 1898, the eldest son of Léopold Magritte, who was a tailor and textile merchant, and Régina (née Bertinchamps), a milliner until her marriage. Little is known about Magritte’s early life.

Between ourselves, it’s terrible what one lays oneself open to when drawing an innocent picture. – René Magritte

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. – René Magritte

I cannot paint until I have the complete picture in my mind. – René Magritte

My art is only valid insofar as it resists bourgeois ideology, in the name of which life is extinguished. – René Magritte

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing; they evoke mystery and, indeed, when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question, “What does that mean?” It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable. – René Magritte

I caused the iron bells hanging from the necks of our admirable horses to sprout like dangerous plants at the edge of an abyss. — Magritte expounding on his fondness for putting jingle bells in his paintings.

One night, I woke up in a room in which a cage with a bird sleeping in it had been placed. A magnificent error caused me to see an egg in the cage, instead of the vanished bird. I then grasped a new and astonishing poetic secret, for the shock which I experienced had been provoked precisely by the affinity of two objects — the cage and the egg — to each other, whereas previously this shock had been caused by my bringing together two objects that were unrelated. — speaking about Elective Affinities (1933)