Quote - Interesting. You're a musician Sam. Are song titles important? I think that names can be evocative and perhaps somehow add something to a work. 'The Scream' vs something like 'Figure Study #78'. I think there's a kind of synergy between the title and the work. A name can't make a work but it can reinforce it IMO. I think that's pretty much true for a picture, a perfume, anything. Vampyroteuthis infernalis is OK but 'Vampire Squid' really hits. 

Song titles can be important, depending on context.  Even something like "Stairway to Heaven" is called that because that's what it's about.  We have a song called "The Wasp Factory", because it's inspired by and based on the novel of the same name.  OTOH, there's a guy - Colin Newman - had an album called "Provisionally Entitled the Singing Fish" and all the tracks were called "Fish".  Peter Gabriel's first three albums were called "Peter Gabriel".

I wouldn't call an image "Render #15", or whatever; what I do is give the picture a label which is a fair description of the contents.  Everything depends on context; a title should be apparent by the subject matter and if you spend too much time agonizing over it, you're wasting creativity on what is really just a label.

Or, you could go the Chinese route; I heard a story that they tend to like very literal titles, and so the title of "The Crying Game" was changed to "Oh No! My Girlfriend Has A Penis". 

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