“In order to say Ceci n’est pas une pipe we need words. Images are what they are.”
– Carlo Ginzburg
Source: C. Ginzburg, “Idols and Likenesses: Origen, Homilies on Exodus VIII.3, and its Reception,” in John Onians, ed., Sight and Insight: Essays on Art and Culture in Honour of E. H. Gombrich at Eighty-Five (London, 1994), 55-72, here 67.
D. L. Dusenbury 