Not long ago I ran across a wonderful quote from Frédéric Chopin:
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
Ironically, I tend to associate Chopin's music with "a vast quantity of notes"; to find simplicity, I would seek out, say, the music of Erik Satie, whose Trois Gymnopédies I've been re-learning on guitar of late.
Or, as is written in chapter 56 of the Tao Te Ching:
Those who know don't say
Those who say don't know
And, of course, Thoreau, who in Walden urged us to "simplify, simplify."
Pondering the matter makes me want to contemplate more and write less...
(Cross-posted at philosopher.coach.)
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