“…Beloved imagination, what I most like in you is your unforgiving nature. Freedom is the one word that still exalts me. I consider it capable of upholding indefinitely the longstanding human fanaticism. Undoubtedly it responds to my only legitimate aspiration. Among so many disgraces we inherit, it is only fair to admit that we are granted the greatest freedom of spirit. It is up to us not to misuse it gravely. To reduce it to slavery, even if it involved what we crudely call happiness, is to abandon/to forsake the supreme justice we find deep-rooted in ourselves. Imagination alone tells me what can be, and that is enough to briefly lift the terrible ban; enough also for me to abandon myself to her without fear of making a mistake.” – Andre Breton, Manifesto of Surrealism, 1924
Paintings by Rene Magritte







This is the only painting that Magritte did an exact copy of. Which one is the original?





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