April 30, 2016

Simplicity

Simple is hard—more difficult than cutting diamonds, more back-breaking than mining coal. Of course, complicated is also hard. Nothing good in art comes easy. But we can be deceived by the simplicity of an artwork's effect, tempted into believing that it must derive from a simplicity of effort. And to all such temptations, there's really only one answer: an insistence that simple is hard. Harder than adamant. Tougher than steel.

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