Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.
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It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words.
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.
It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.
There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.
Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.
We live in such a gullible world. Anything that's written, anything that's posted, anything picture that is interpreted one way is taken as truth.
Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful.
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