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a picture paints a thousand words en · X

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  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of a picture is worth a thousand words.
    • See accompanying diagram: a picture paints a thousand words, and all that! 2006, Paul Shakespeare, Building a Dune Buggy: The Essential Manual, →ISBN, page 52:
    • 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. 1989, Alan Kay, quoted in Kʻo-tung Huang, Timothy D. Huang, Introduction to Chinese, Japanese and Korean Computing, World Scientific, p. 9
    • 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. 1971, David Gates (of Bread), If, from Manna album