A picture is worth a thousand words
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“If people don’t believe that women can be great artists, we will simply show them. A picture is worth a thousand words and the museum should house hundreds of them.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2021
A picture is worth a thousand words… and 60,000 Twitter likes.
From Fox News • Dec. 30, 2019
A picture is worth a thousand words, but a thousand-page book can create a story that would take a dozen hours to fully tell onscreen.
From The Verge • May 20, 2016
It was a retweet from a person who wrote, "A picture is worth a thousand words."
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2016
A picture is worth a thousand words – and could save you thousands of calories.
From US News • Apr. 2, 2015
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