Selected Writings
Magritte argued about resemblance and thought with the same precision his paintings used to disrupt them, in manifestos and interviews collected in English at last.
The first substantial English gathering of Magritte’s manifestos, lectures, interviews and letters, assembled by scholar Kathleen Rooney. It reveals a writer as committed to precision as his paintings were to disruption, arguing about resemblance, thought and the limits of the image with a rigour that resists the whimsy his pictures tend to attract.
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Maria Popova
In a 1947 interview included in his Selected Writings (public library) — the first release of Magritte’s manifestos, interviews, and other prose in English, thanks to the heroic efforts of scholar Kathleen Rooney
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