a picture paints a thousand words

English

Proverb

a picture paints a thousand words

1. Alternative form of a picture is worth a thousand words
   • 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.

   • 1989, Alan Kay, quoted in Kʻo-tung Huang, Timothy D. Huang, Introduction to Chinese, Japanese and Korean Computing, World Scientific, →ISBN, 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.

   • 2006, Paul Shakespeare, Building a Dune Buggy: The Essential Manual‎^[1], →ISBN, page 52:

     See accompanying diagram: a picture paints a thousand words, and all that!

Translations

a picture is worth a thousand words — see a picture is worth a thousand words