Ronald Reagan
[Actor and politician, b. 1911, Tampico, Illinois, d. 2004, Bel Air, California.]
One picture is worth one-thousand denials.
Richard Prince
[Artist, b. 1949, Panama Canal Zone, lives in New York.]
If a picture was once worth a thousand words, one square inch of an image is now worth 360,000 bytes of computer storage space.
Wim Wenders
[Artist and filmmaker, b. 1945, Düsseldorf, lives in Berlin.]
Whoever came up first with that saying “a picture is worth a thousand words” didn’t understand the first thing about either one.
Napoleon Bonaparte
[Military commander and emperor, b. 1769, Ajaccio, Corsica, d. 1821, St. Helena, France.]
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Edward Steichen
[Photographer and curator, b. 1879, Luxembourg, Germany, d. 1973, West Redding, Connecticut.]
A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.
Douglas Coupland
[Writer, b. 1961, Baden-Söllingen, Germany, lives in Vancouver, Canada.]
I tried to think of a witty play on “Every picture tells a thousand words,” but then the whole word/picture thing collapsed on me.
Andreas Gursky
[Photographer, b. 1955, Leipzig, Germany, lives in Dusseldorf.]
A word is worth a thousand images.
Duane Michals
[Photographer, b. 1932, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, lives in New York.]
A photograph is not worth a thousand words. Everything is, after all, a thought.
