Abstract: The inbuilt thought of images comes from the meaning of things represented by images and also from the initiation of artist's subjectivity. The meaning of image emerges from the interaction between image and audience. The prescriptive nature of image's presentation becomes the source to generate image's meaning, while the interpretation of the audience actualizes the implicit meaning. In images, visuality is always dominant from which meaning is generated and the audience captures the meaning and keeps the visuality. The initiation of subjectivity into image is artists' conscious action, as is reflected in their observation, conceptualization, and performance. Artists can foreground certain thoughts in images by highlighting the cultural connotation of the things represented, stylizing and specifying the contexts of the images. There is difference in the expression of thought between the presentation of images and the figurative representation constructed through language, and the difference can be described in three ways. First, the visuality of image is unable to represent non-visual phenomena in life. Secondly, image is unable to express thought through its materialitys. Thirdly, the thought presented by visual images is not as clear as that expressed by literary images.

Key words: image, representation, thought, word