The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.-B C Forbes     Are you doing the kind of work you were built for, so that you can expect to be able to do very large amounts of that kind and thrive under it? Or are you doing a kind of which you can do comparatively little.-B C Forbes     If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.-B C Forbes     There…

A line is a dot that went for a walk.-Paul Klee   Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.-Stella Adler     An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.-James Whistler     Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.-Edgar Degas     To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist.-Robert Schumann     If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.-Vincent Van Gogh     Photography takes…

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.- Gilbert K. Chesterton     Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. -Ernest Dimnet     It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.-David Allan Coe     Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.-Frank Gehry   Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.-Julia Morgan   We are called to be architects…