"René Magritte described his paintings as "visible images which conceal nothing; they evoke mystery and, indeed, when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question, 'What does that mean?'.
Magritte je enak pristop uporabil, ko je naslikal jabolko: realistično je naslikal jabolko in nato uporabil odsek slike ali okvirja, kjer je zanikal, da je ta predmet jabolko.