a picture paints a thousand words

Proverb

 * 1) * 1971, David Gates (of Bread), If, from Manna album:
 * If a picture paints a thousand words
 * Then why can't I paint you;
 * The words will never show
 * The you I've come to know.
 * 1) * 1989, Alan Kay, quoted in Kʻo-tung Huang, Timothy D. Huang, Introduction to Chinese, Japanese and Korean Computing, World Scientific, ISBN 9971506645, p. 9:
 * Most human beings, no matter how familiar they are with abstract symbols, respond to voice and images better than written language. In other words, A picture paints a thousand words.
 * Most human beings, no matter how familiar they are with abstract symbols, respond to voice and images better than written language. In other words, A picture paints a thousand words.