Essence Quote by Chairil Anwar

A word is worth a thousand images.

— Andreas Gursky

First you must have the images, then come the words.

— Robert James Waller

Those things are inextricable bound up in my mind, with words I make an image and vice versa.

— Jan Theuninck

Most of what I want simply slips away like water flowing through a net, and always what remains are only vague, elusive fragments of…

— Daido Moriyama

How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?

— Roland Barthes

We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the…

— William S. Burroughs

A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.

— Peter Schjeldahl

Ladies and gentlemen, a picture is not worth a thousand words. We found some pictures that are worth 500 billion words.

— Erez Lieberman Aiden

Ladies and gentlemen, a picture is not worth a thousand words. In fact, we found some pictures that are worth 500 billion words.

— Erez Lieberman Aiden

I think there are no meaningful images. Meanings are created outside of the image.

— Joachim Schmid

I can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not quite there,…

— Chuck Close

An image is better than one thousand words

— Confucius