Yesterday I went to the Matisse exhibition at GOMA here in Brisbane featuring his drawings rather than his paintings. It was interesting to observe the progression of his style from his early academic, complex, realistic work to the fluid, flowing simple lines of his later drawings.
It is an interesting paradox that the more expert he became - the simpler became his forms. But that simplicity was infinitely more creative and compelling. That is one of the characteristics of expert creativity - the expression of elegant principles that encapsulate so much with so little. (Think E=MC2).
It was a great reminder to me to keep this principle in mind with my own endeavors. Look for the simple rather than the complex solution.