I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier.

I don't remember where I heard or read this story.

I may have all the facts completely wrong.

This may be utterly apocryphal.

I wasn't able to find a source for it.

If you know this story or you have the correct version of it,

please let me know.

But this story works so well as a story

that I cannot resist telling it,

even if it's likely apocryphal.

So here it is.

One day a client came to the great artist, Henry Matisse,

with a desire to buy one of the master's works.

He tells Matisse that he wants to buy something

and Matisse pulls out a sheet of paper

and with a few depth strokes

creates one of his highly distinctive masterful drawings.

Ah, beautiful, says the customer.

How much?

Matisse names a price so high that the customer is shocked.

So much for just a minute of drawing, he protests?

A minute of drawing.

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