René Magritte, The Treachery of Images (“This is Not a Pipe”) 1929

le canon = the gunAn object is not so attached to its name that one cannot find for it another one which is more suitable

canot = French word for rowboatThere are objects which can do without a name.

ciel = skyA word sometimes serves only to designate itself.

foret = forestAn object encounters its image, and objects encounters its name. It happens that the image and the name of this object encounter each other.

( a hand + a box + a rock? )Sometimes the name of an object occupies the place of an image.(stands for an image)

René Magritte, Le Perreux-sur-Marne, (“The Palace of Curtains, III) 1928-29

Le soleil = sun, sunshineA word can take the place of an object in reality.

Le ___ est cache par les nuages. = The ____ is hidden by the clouds.An image can take the place of a word in a sentence.

An object can suggest that there are other objects behind it.

Poem: One Train May Hide Anotherby Kenneth Koch

l’objet reel; l’objet represnete = real object; image of object.Everything tends to make us think that there is little relationship between an object and that which represents it.

‘person with memory loss’ and 'woman's body' The words which serve to indicate two different objects do not show what may divide these objects from one another.

In a painting the words are of the same substance as the images.

Montagne = mountain, mountYou can perceive words and images differently in a painting.

A shape can replace the image of an object for any reason.

cheval = horseAn object never serves the same purpose as either its name or its image does.

Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs, 1965

Sometimes the visible shapes of objects, in real life, form a mosaic.

René Magritte, The Empty Mask (Frame), 1928.

Vague or unclear shapes have a precise significance every bit as necessary as that of perfect shapes.

Sometimes, the names written in a picture designate precise things, while the images are vague.

brouillard = fogOr equally, the opposite: