diff --git a/tutorials/colors/colors.py b/tutorials/colors/colors.py
index d4b0df04963d..beeba7df3ead 100644
--- a/tutorials/colors/colors.py
+++ b/tutorials/colors/colors.py
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
 
 .. note::
 
-    Re-ordering Artists is not commutative in Matplotlib.
+    Changing the order of Artists will generally change the resulting figure.
 
 
 "CN" color selection