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.

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original text: "La dernière chose c'est la simplicité. Après avoir epuisé toutes les difficultés, apres avoir joué une immense quantité de notes, et de notes, c'est la simplicité qui sort avec tout son charme, comme le dernier sceau de l'art." quoted in Niecks (1888).

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