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one picture paints a thousand words

A single picture can express something more clearly, vividly, or succinctly than a large amount of words can. I know I'm doing a bad job of capturing the scene by describing it, so just look at this picture from their website—one picture paints a thousand words, doesn't it? You try to have characters give too much exposition. Remember, one picture paints a thousand words, so use the images in your film to tell its story as much as possible.

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If a picture paints a thousand words, then Gayford's (art critic for Bloomberg News) collection of conversations with artist, David Hockney, is a work of art.

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.THEY say a picture paints a thousand words. If that's true then I'm afraid I can't repeat any of those that sprang to mind when I saw photos of Zsa Zsa Gabor being carried into hospital.

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Well, a picture paints a thousand words and for me, this is the picture - released to promote the new series of The X Factor.