A picture paints a thousand words. Everyone has its own explanation about this idiom. Base on my research, this quote was one Chinese proverb long ago and allegedly first made by Confucius. This idiom says that a visualization is a better description than a verbal description. Simply put, it means that a picture will be far more descriptive of something than words can ever be or put it another way, no matter how hard you try, you cannot beat a visual presentation. In other words, sometimes, too much words are hardly to get what is the real story or meaning behind that many words but if you are looking at a picture, the picture itself will tell you the story or meaning behind that.
I found this photo while I was doing my assignment for my history. This picture shows a sculpture. But behind the sculpture I felt different. The picture was full of emotional. Its shows that a man was trying to stand by holding on to a wall. As you can see, the man was naked. Maybe the man is poor or he was kidnapped or beaten by gangster who were asking for money and get thrown by the roadside naked. Sometimes a picture can communicate more succinctly than words. I think that this sculpture gets over, brilliantly, the emotional state that exists when you are frustrated, in a state of despair, finding it hard to go on and wanting to give in. Although the creator probably had in mind an extreme situation, it also works as an exaggerated expression of more mundane frustrations that sap your enthusiasm and make you question the benefit of going on.
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