Pictures are symbols as well. Pictures are symbols or visual vehicles through which meaning is conveyed. This is the potential benefit of art. Art can convey love, symmetry, and harmony. Of course, art can convey hatred, confusion, and chaos as well.
Pictures have the power to stimulate wonder, awe, and amazement.
However, pictures have the power to stimulate hatred, animosity, and selfishness. Recently, some in our valley protested against the seductive pictures a certain adult video store had placed on billboards in apparently very strategic locations in our communities. The concern was over the pictures of women who gave the appearance of being purposefully seductive in their demeanor. I applaud the concern. Those pictures, in my estimation, were conveying ideas that are destructive to society.