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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