The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it’s just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture “This is a pipe,” I’d have been lying!
-- René Magritte, on his painting The Treachery of Images depicting a pipe with “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” (“This is not a pipe”) written under it
-- René Magritte, on his painting The Treachery of Images depicting a pipe with “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” (“This is not a pipe”) written under it