Able Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time.

— Pablo Picasso

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.

— Duane Michals

An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Pictures are so good at giving people information that they're not looking for.

— Tibor Kalman

I don't believe a picture is worth a thousand words, unless they're very confusing words.

— Lynne Tillman

The images in a picture book are the driving forces that tell the story. The words tell only what the pictures can't.

— Anonymous

Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.

— Pablo Picasso

It is always a problem to know what an image means.

— Frederick Wiseman

A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit.

— Mary Ellen Mark

“Any problem can be made clearer with a picture, and any picture can be created using the same set of tools and rules.”

— Dan Roam

They say 'A Picture' Is Worth A Thousand Words. But I think they're wrong. When I looked at yours, I was speechless...

— Anonymous

The photograph is the only picture that can truly convey information, even if it is technically faulty and the object can barely be identified.…

— Gerhard Richter