“And some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth, and the round world itself but an empty cipher, except to sell by the cartload, as they do in the hills about Boston to fill up some morass in the Milky Way.” Ishmael, in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick

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La Trahison des Images) (The Treachery of Images) Rene Magritte, 1928-1929

"The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it "The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it is just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture ‘This is a pipe’, I’ d have been lying!" (Magritte cited in Harry Torczyner, Magritte: Ideas and Images, p. 71.)

John Berger Ways of Seeing p.8-9 “The way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe…We never look at just one thing we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves. Our vision is continually active, continually moving…” John Berger Ways of Seeing p.8-9

Magritte cartoon Bizarro by Dan Piraro

Learnt Assumptions According to John Berger in, Ways of Seeing, when we look at a work of art, we are affected by a whole series of learnt assumptions concerning: Beauty Truth Genius Civilization Form Status Taste