Sayings from the past

"Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it." - Leonardo Da Vinci
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." - Hans Hofmann, Introduction to the Bootstrap, 1993
"Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge." - Winston Churchill
"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful." - William Morris
"Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves." - Edwin Way Teale
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo DaVinci