[b]Rene Magritte
We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world. [/b]
Besides, it just makes you all the more miserable still.
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.
Here we do that with words.
The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it’s just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture “This is a pipe”, I’d have been lying!
Let’s analyze this to shreds.
If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing the thing itself, but of thinking of the question that is raised.
Or, sure, both.
Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible.
So, what’s invisible here?
If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.
Up next: the nightmares.