Occasionally, I try to teach writers the value of closing scenes with images, rather than a line of dialog. This morning, as I was having my coffee, I came across this quote from someone who can speak more eloquently about the power of images than I ever can.
"And you who claim to demonstrate by words the shape of a man from every aspect of his membral attitudes, dismiss such an idea, because the more minutely you describe, the more you will confuse the mind of the reader and the more you will lead him away from a knowledge of the thing described. Therefore it is necessary both to illustrate and describe." -- Leonardo Da Vinci
This quote appeared in the opening of a chapter in a book called Field Notes on Science & Nature, edited by Michael R. Canfield.
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