A picture is worth a thousand words, therefore, a writer must use a thousand words to paint a picture.

If a picture paints a thousand words, then why can't I paint you?

A picture is worth a thousand words.

In politics, a picture is worth a thousand words.

It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.

A picture is worth a thousand words. A satellite image is worth a million dollars.