She understood the relationship between the understanding of God and the understanding of the existence of God. She argued that both must go together. As “that than which greater cannot be conceived,” therefore “that something than which nothing greater can be conceived,” She gives the clearest example of this concept. The painter imagines what he is about to paint as it relates to his understanding. However, he does not understand that it exists because he has not created it yet. After he paints it, both have joined as his relation of understanding and his understanding that it exists. In other words, first, the image was made in his mind, and then it became a reality upon completion, like a painting on his canvas. Therefore, the relation to understanding cannot stand alone without the understanding of its reality.