The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A picture is a poem without words.
Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
Writing is the beast unto itself.
The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.
You can't write an image, a metaphor, a story, a phrase, without leaning a little further into the shared world, without recognizing that your supposed solitude is at every point of its perimeter touching some other.
When you make illustrations, you're supposed to have a subtext; you're not just communicating words - you're actually adding another story altogether.
There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.
A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words.