“The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.”― B.H. Liddell Hart     “Loyalty is a noble quality, so long as it is not blind and does not exclude the higher loyalty to truth and decency.”― B.H. Liddell Hart     “Among men who rise to fame and leadership two types are recognizable-those who are born with a belief in themselves and those in whom it is a slow growth dependent on actual achievement. To men of the last type their own success is a constant surprise, and its fruits the…

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…