Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Variant: Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Source: Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990
“An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.”
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969)
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Paul Dirac (1902–1984) theoretical physicist
As quoted in Dirac: A Scientific Biography (1990), by Helge Kragh, p. 258
Source: [Kragh, Helge, Dirac: A Scientific Biography, https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zXm1Bso1VREC&pg=PA258&lpg=PA258&dq=%22The+aim+of+science+is+to+make+difficult+things+understandable+in+a+simpler+way;+the+aim+of+poetry+is+to+state+simple+things+in+an+incomprehensible+way.+The+two+are+incompatible%22&source=bl&ots=OLeGFpZGCh&sig=VRga1I7FVl9UBpXi_oAq_-8u_ls&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjBwLbbwdvVAhXIIMAKHZ_pCZQQ6AEIOTAD#v=onepage&q=%22The%20aim%20of%20science%20is%20to%20make%20difficult%20things%20understandable%20in%20a%20simpler%20way%3B%20the%20aim%20of%20poetry%20is%20to%20state%20simple%20things%20in%20an%20incomprehensible%20way.%20The%20two%20are%20incompatible%22&f=false, March 30, 1990, 258, December 6, 2017]
Kay Hooper (1957) American writer
Source: What Dreams May Come
Josh Homme (1973) American musician
Reported in Jay Babcock, " MUSIC IS NEVER WRONG: A visit with Josh Homme & John Paul Jones of Them Crooked Vultures http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/10/15/them-crooked-vultures/", Arthur Magazine (October 15, 2009).
“Sometimes simple things are the most difficult things to achieve.”
Keanu Reeves (1964) Canadian actor, director, producer and musician
“Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.”
Carl von Clausewitz book On War
On War (1832), Book 1
“There is no simple way to say this.”
Michael Joyce (1945) American academic and writer
"afternoon, a story" (1990)
“It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.”
Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
Source: 1910s, A Book of Prefaces (1917), Ch. 2
“It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath