MINIATURE MODEL BUILDING

“Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.”

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch Painter, one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists, 1853-1890)

ROADSIDE SIGNBOARD

“Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.”

Walter Benjamin (German Theologian, Writer and Essayist. 1892-1940)

SEASIDE GAZEBO

“A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea.”

Honore de Balzac (French Novelist He developed the realistic novel describing French society in Comedie Humaine (1841). 1799-1850)

ON THE ROAD AGAIN

“A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.”

H. Stanley Judd

CITY ROOFTOPS

“I'm not the type who'll yell about my achievements from the rooftops.”

Aishwarya Rai

CONSTRUCTION DRILL

“There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.”

Ernest Hemingway (American novelist and short-story writer, Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, 1899-1961)

SHIP HULL SIDE VIEW

“Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.”

Lowell Thomas

BARE OPEN CASING

“When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your faith.”

Abraham Kuyper (Dutch Theologian, Statesman, Journalist and Prime Minister of The Netherlands (1901-05). 1837-1920)