1. René Magritte, The Treachery of Images (“This is Not a Pipe”) 1929
The Treachery of Images belongs to a series of word-image paintings by Magritte from the late 1920s. He combined images and text in a style suggested both by children’s books, and by Magritte’s early career in advertising. The artist laid out his rationale for word-image paintings in an illustrated text called “Words and Images.”
René Magritte, The Treachery of Images (“This is Not a Pipe”) 1929

2. 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

3. canot = French word for rowboat
There are objects which can do without a name.

4. ciel = sky
A word sometimes serves only to designate itself.

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

10. One Train May Hide Another by Kenneth Koch
An object can suggest that there are other objects behind it.
Poem:
One Train May Hide Another
by Kenneth Koch

11. 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.

13. ‘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.

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

15. Montagne = mountain, mount
You can perceive words and images differently in a painting.

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

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

19. Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs, 1965

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

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

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

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

25. brouillard = fog
Or equally, the opposite: