“Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
“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.”
As quoted in If Not God, Then What?
Source: If Not God, Then What? (2007) by Joshua Fost, p. 93
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“I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.”
Clarice Lispector book The Hour of the Star
Source: The Hour of the Star
“Music, or any art form… has to strike the right balance between simplicity and complexity”
Daniel Levitin (1957) American psychologist
This is Your Brain on Music (2006)
Context: When a musical piece is too simple we tend not to like it, finding it trivial. When it is too complex, we tend not to like it, finding it unpredictable—we don't perceive it to be grounded in anything familiar. Music, or any art form... has to strike the right balance between simplicity and complexity...
Simon Conway Morris (1951) British palaeontologist
Source: Life's Solution (2003), p. 315.
“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
“What is simplicity? Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution.”
Ward Cunningham (1949) American computer programmer who developed the first wiki
A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work
“To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable”
Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827) German Romantic composer
Not found in Beethoven's known works. It may be a summary of the following description of Beethoven from his piano pupil Ferdinand Ries: "When I left out something in a passage, a note or a skip, which in many cases he wished to have specially emphasized, or struck a wrong key, he seldom said anything; yet when I was at fault with regard to the expression, the crescendo or matters of that kind, or in the character of the piece, he would grow angry. Mistakes of the other kind, he said were due to chance; but these last resulted from want of knowledge, feeling or attention. He himself often made mistakes of the first kind, even playing in public." <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Source: "When Beethoven gave me a lesson" https://books.google.com/books?id=j8RIq67v51cC&pg=PA294&dq=%22when+beethoven+gave+me+a+lesson%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAGoVChMI7Yyz0PiNyQIViDuICh1YIAzR#v=onepage&q=%22when%20beethoven%20gave%20me%20a%20lesson%22&f=false