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…

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.-W. Somerset Maugham     A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.-Paul Sweeney     Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.-Zane Grey     Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.-Simone Signoret     May you live all the days of your life.-Jonathan Swift       The secret of…