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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. - Rene Magritte Quote
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Surrealism Art Movement
Founded by Andre Breton in 1924
" Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake
it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe that it acts on
the mind very much as drugs do; like drugs, it creates a certain state
of need and can push man to frightful revolts. It also is, if you like,
an artificial paradise, and the taste one has for it derives from
Baudelaire's criticism for the same reason as the others. Thus the
analysis of the mysterious effects and special pleasures it can produce
-- in many respects Surrealism occurs as a new vice which does not
necessarily seem to be restricted to the happy few; like hashish, it has
the ability to satisfy all manner of tastes -- such an analysis has to
be included in the present study" --MANIFESTO OF SURREALISM by Andre
Breton c. 1924
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Definition of Surrealism
SURREALISM, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to
express, verbally, in writing, or by other means, the real process of
thought. Thought's dictation, in the absence of all control exercised by
the reason and outside all aesthetic or moral preoccupations.
ENCYCL. Philos. Surrealism rests in the belief in the superior reality
of certain forms of association neglected heretofore; in the omnipotence
of the dream and in the disinterested play of thought. It tends
definitely to do away with all other psychic mechanisms and to
substitute itself for them in the solution of the principal problems of
life. -- André Breton (The founder of the Surrealist Movement) 1924
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