A Thousand Words by Mary Brotherton

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iWGNprqgIhg https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G37NQ21R Who hasn’t heard, “A picture is worth a thousand words?” But do you know the origin of that statement?Fred R. Barnard was an advertising publicist who started using this phrase in the 1920s. Long before Barnard was born, Leonardo da Vinci had said a painter could represent something faster than a poet could with words, and Russian writer Ivan Turgenev had said a drawing showed at a glance what could take […]

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