A Word is Worth a Thousand Pictures

Bonsoir,
I recognize that this is all rather cliche, but it came to me during class today. We've heard time and time again that "a picture is worth a thousand words"...but doesn't it also work the other way around? If you set a word in front of us, couldn't it be worth a thousand pictures? We'd all perceive the word differently and tie it in with our different intensional and extensional interpretations and experiences. Take for example the word "serene". Some might imagine a beach, some might imagine a winter wonderland, some might even imagine a picture of an airplane soaring through the sky. Would someone need to have studied Hayakawa and/or semantics in general in order to think this way? I think we should coin the new term for ourselves. I hope it doesn't already exist!

A bientot,
(Sam Maliha)
Comrade Maliha