Language Quote by John Dryden

When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see,…

— Zora Neale Hurston

I love picture books - with picture books, you can use words and pictures as a double act, even tell two different versions of…

— Mini Grey

What excites me about picture books is the gap between pictures and words. Sometimes the pictures can tell a slightly different story or tell…

— Anthony Browne

“If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the imagination is worth a thousand pictures.”

— J.E.B. Spredemann

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

— Erez Lieberman Aiden

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being…

— Peter Porter

Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.

— Harvey Pekar

I like to look at the interface between words and pictures and wonder about which comes first, a sort of chicken-or-egg type of question.

— Elaine Equi

I hope for quick, fluent copy and memorable pictures. The words would not 'describe' the pictures; the pictures would not 'illustrate' the words. Together,…

— Muriel Rukeyser

Words also are filters. They have to be translated. Even in the original language, there is interpretation and some ambiguity. If there's a cultural…

— Marjane Satrapi

I did all the stuff that people do - film, performance, photography, pictures and words, words and pictures. In retrospect, I was trying to…

— David Salle

Still photographs are the most powerful weapons in the world. Words and pictures have a continuing struggle for primacy. In my mind, a person…

— Eddie Adams