"The law of simplicity and naïvety holds good of all fine art; for it is quite possible to be at once simple and sublime. True brevity of expression consists in everywhere saying only what is worth saying, and in avoiding tedious detail about things which everyone can supply for himself. This involves correct discrimination between what is necessary and what is superfluous. A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear..."
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Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena (1851) Also see The Art of Literature: A Series of Essays by Arthur Schopenhauer (1891) Tr. T. Bailey Saunders, "On Style" p. 31.
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