Can Maven be made less verbose?

I'm sometimes forced to use Maven (eww). It spews out far too many lines of output to my taste (I like the Unix way: no news is good news). The lines I want to get rid of are marked [INFO], but I couldn't find any mention of an argument or config settings that controls the verbosity of Maven. Is there no LOG4J-like way to set the log level?

From stackoverflow Asaf Bartov

• You can try the switch -q.

  -q,--quiet Quiet output - only show errors

  From smink

• Use the -q or --quiet command-line options

  From Sietse