No free lunch: Part II

Last year, I did a couple of posts on Tang Dynasty poetry quotes suitable for bonsai pot decoration (see http://lomov.blogspot.com.au/2014/12/no-free-lunch.html and http://lomov.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/lower-your-expectations.html). Image above shows a Chinese proverb or cheng-yu with the meaning “nothing good is ever simple” also known to me as “there is no such thing as free lunch”. Could I also interpret it as “good bonsai is never easy”?