The Present, 1939 Rene Magritte

“The translation of the language of things into that of (wo)man is not only a translation of the mute (silent) into the sonic; it is also the translation of the nameless into name.” –Walter Benjamin

 

“The general form of propositions is this: “This is how things are.”–That is the kind of proposition that one repeats to oneself countless times. One thinks that one is tracing the outline of the thing’s nature over and over again, and one is merely tracing round the frame through which we look at it.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus