Because . . .
"A picture shows me at a glance what it takes dozens of
pages of a book to expound."
| —Ivan Turgenev (Fathers and Sons, 1862) |
"Un bon croquis vaut mieux qu'un long discours."
("A good sketch is better than a long speech.")
| —Napoleon Bonaparte (date unknown) |
"One Look is Worth A Thousand Words."
| —Fred R. Barnard on the benefits of advertising with pictures |
| on street cars. Printer's Ink, (December 8, 1921, pp. 96-97) |
"One Picture is Worth Ten Thousand Words."
| —Fred R. Barnard on advertising with pictures and attributed to a |
| "Chinese proverb." Printer's Ink, (March 10, 1927, pp. 114-115) |
"I called it 'a Chinese proverb,' so that people would take
it seriously."
| —Fred R. Barnard as quoted in The MacMillan Book of Proverbs, |
| Maxims and Famous Phrases . Formerly The Home Book of |
| Proverbs, Maxims and Familiar Phrases (1948, p. 2611) |