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What Matisse Can Teach Us About Art and Life

What Matisse Can Teach Us About Art and Life

Colour, creativity and courage

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May 21, 2025
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Henri Matisse, Paris, May 13th 1913. Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn

Dear Reader,

I recently read a short quote that stopped me in my tracks:

“A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.”

Like all good aphorisms, it contains hints of both poetry and paradox.

It was apparently uttered by the French artist Henri Matisse, and it quickly had me speculating on …

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