Words & Images
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• An object is not so possessed of its name that one cannot find for it another which suits it better.
• There are objects which do without a name.
• A word sometimes only serves to designate itself.
• An object encounters its image, an object encounters its name. It happens that the image and the
name of that object encounter each other.
name of that object encounter each other.
• Sometimes the name of an object takes the place of an image.
• A word can take the place of an object in reality.
• An image can take the place of a word in a proposition.
• An object can imply that there are other objects behind it.
• Everything tends to make one think that there is little relation between an object and that which
represents it.
represents it.
• The words which serve to designate two different objects do not show what may distinguish
those objects from one another.
those objects from one another.
• In a painting, the words are of the same substance as the images.
• One sees differently the images and the words in a painting.
• Any shape whatever may replace the image of an object.
• An object never performs the same function as its name or its image.
• The visible contours of objects in reality touch each other as if they formed a mosaic.
• Vague figures have a meaning as necessary and as perfect as precise ones.
• Sometimes, the names written in a painting designate precise things, and images vague things.
• Or, the contrary.
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