"The Picture Worth A Million Words"
Each and every picture is worth a thousand words.  There are one thousand and twenty four pictures here, that make up "the big picture".  The big picture is a "photo-mosaic" of thirty-two pictures wide and thirty-two pictures tall.   Each of the one thousand and twenty four small pictures is made up of thirty-two pixels wide and thirty-two pixels tall.   The one thousand and twenty four pixels of each thumbnail picture add up to one million, forty eight thousand, five hundred, and seventy-six pixels for,
"The Picture Worth A Million Words".
 

  A picture is worth a thousand words

A thousand pictures is worth a million words

32 pictures times 32 pictures=1024 pictures

32 pixels times 32 pixels=1024 pixels

1024 pixels times 1024 pixels=1,048,576 pixels

1,024 pictures is worth 1,048,576 words.
 

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A picture is worth a thousand words.
Meaning:
You use this proverb to say that a picture can give you as much information as a written or spoken text with a lot of words can.
If someone says, "A picture is worth a thousand words," he/she means that you can describe something by drawing just one picture as well as you can by writing or saying a lot of words.

People also say "A picture paints a thousand words."
Example:
Thank you for trying to give me directions, but it's too confusing to me. Would you mind drawing a map for me? A picture is worth a thousand words.
by, Kazumasa Aoyama -English Idioms & Proverbs
http://humanities.byu.edu/elc/student/idioms/idiomsmain.html

More famous quotes:

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Leonardo da Vinci

Let's see eye to eye

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
Author: Ansel Adams

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.
Author: Shana Alexander

An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
Author: Benjamin Franklin

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Author: Marcel Proust

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
Author: Winston Churchill

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
Author: Honore de Balzac

You all are a sight for a sore eye.
Author: Lindy Boggs

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
Author: Elizabeth Bowen

What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.
Author: Pierre Bonnard

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.
Author: Buddha

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
Author: Thomas Carlyle

I saw sparks fly from the corner of my eye when she entered the room.
Author: Robert Louis Martin

 

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