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Quote card: The perfection of art is to conceal art.

“The perfection of art is to conceal art.”

Latin maxim (Ars est celare artem), often credited to Quintilian. The idea appears in Quintilian; the exact phrase is later.

The best work looks effortless: the smooth plaster, the quiet ward, the meal that arrives just right. Behind it is a lot of practice.

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