René Magritte
In the Mind of Great Artists
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“There are no answers in my paintings. Just questions”
René Magritte
Magritte is the painter that provokes us to see things in a different way and to search for new perspectives.
He proposes us to change our look and enjoy a different and wonderful world —magic and full of miracles— with a new sensitivity.
The Belgian painter was more interested in challenging our universe, our view of the world than in imposing his. He wanted to convince us that there are other ways to see.
According to him, the first step to “rediscover” reality is by doubting it. That has always been the path to wisdom both in the West and East (from Zen to “I know I know nothing” by Socrates): first the astonishment, then the questioning, then the question, always with the beginner’s mind, with humbleness.
Because those who think that know all the answers have killed their capacity of astonishment. And without capacity of astonishment life can turn out to be unbearable.
Magritte himself explained it: “I want to inspire new life to the way we look at the things that surround us. How we should look? As a child: the first time he sees everything as a reality outside himself. I live in the same state of innocence as a child, who thinks he can grasp a bird in full flight.”
Image: The Lovers (1928). René Magritte.
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