Ceci n’est pas une pipe

"This is not a pipe", was the undertitle of a painting from René Magritte, the famous belgian painter. His picture showed a pipe, but of course, the picture was not a pipe. Another painting showed a green apple. "This is not an apple", Magritte undertitled his picture. No, you cannot eat the picture, the picture of an apple is not an apple. René Magritte made use thinking about the thing itself and the picture of the thing. The picture is nothing than a symbol, the idea of a thing.