• 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.

• 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.

• The words which serve to designate two different objects do not show what may distinguish
   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.

"We usually attribute resemblance to things which may or may not have a common nature. We say ‘as alike as two peas in a pod’ and we say, just as easily, that the fake resembles the authentic. This so-called resemblance consists of relations of comparison, whose similarities are perceived by the mind when it examines, evaluates and composes. Likeness is not concerned with ‘common sense’ or with defying it, but only with spontaneously assembling shapes from the world of appearance in an order given by inspiration."  – René Magritte