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René Magritte, The Treachery of Images (This is
Not a Pipe) 1929
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le canon the gun

• An object is not so attached to its name that one
  cannot find for it another one which is more
  suitable

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canot French word for rowboat

• There are objects which can do without a name.

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ciel sky

• A word sometimes serves only to designate itself.

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foret forest

• An object encounters its image, and objects
  encounters its name. It happens that the image
  and the name of this object encounter each other.

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( a hand a box a rock? )

• Sometimes the name of an object occupies the
  place of an image.
• (stands for an image)

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

• A word can take the place of an object in
  reality.

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Le ___ est cache par les nuages. The ____ is
hidden by the clouds.

• An image can take the place of a word in a
  sentence.

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

Poem One Train May Hide Another by Kenneth Koch
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lobjet reel lobjet 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.

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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.

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

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Montagne mountain, mount

• You can perceive words and images differently in
  a painting.

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

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cheval horse

• An object never serves the same purpose as either
  its name or its image does.

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Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs, 1965
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• Sometimes the visible shapes of objects, in real
  life, form a mosaic.

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René Magritte, The Empty Mask (Frame), 1928.
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• Vague or unclear shapes have a precise
  significance every bit as necessary as that of
  perfect shapes.

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

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brouillard fog

• Or equally, the opposite

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