René Magritte 'The Human Condition' 1938

Ladies, Gentlemen, comrades, the old question: "Who are we ?' finds a disappointing reply in the world where we have to live. We are really nothing other than the subjects of this world which claims to be civil, where intelligence, cowardice, heroism, stupidity, which adapt to each other very well, take turns being current.

Rene Magritte, La Grande Famille - The Great Family, 1963, 
Utsunomyia Museum of Art, Utsunomyia

Others, with whom I am proud to associate, despite the Utopian ideas of which they are accused, consciously want the proletarian revolution that will transform the world; and we act toward this end, each according to his means.

In the meantime we must defend ourselves from this mediocre reality formed by centuries of idolatry of money, races, states, gods and, I want to add, idolatry of art.

The nature that bourgeois society has not managed to suffocate completely offers a dream state, which gives our bodies and spirits the freedom of which they have an imperative need."


Bibliography

1. Federico Zeri, Magritte. THE HUMAN CONDITION, NDE Canada Corp. 2001.