A great song or painting or joke disguises the immense work that went into making it.
That’s the point.
Hard work is complex. Complexity is beautiful and beauty is simple.
It’s why great art often elicits simple responses. We play the song again, we look at the painting an extra thirty seconds, we laugh at the joke.
Great art isn’t about getting credit for the hard work. It’s about giving people an invitation permission to respond in a simple way to something that resonates deeply. Even if they don’t realize it.
