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

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

A picture is worth a thousand words.

In politics, a picture is worth a thousand words.

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

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.