by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 17, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, BEAUTY, BECOMING, BOOKS, BUTTERFLY, CALM, CREATIVITY, DIGITAL ART, FANTASY, FEMALE PORTRAIT
“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”Nathaniel Hawthorne Christian Schloe
by Lisa Azarmi | Aug 24, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, BEAUTY, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, CLASSIC LITERATURE, CREATIVITY, ENDURANCE, LANDSCAPE, LOMGING
“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.” George Eliot – The Mill on the Floss, 1860. Dora Carrington – The Mill at...
by Lisa Azarmi | Aug 24, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, BEAUTY, BOTANICAL, CLASSIC LITERATURE, COURAGE, CREATIVITY, DREAMS, FLOWERS
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Felice Casoati – Dreaming of Pomegranates, 1912.
by Lisa Azarmi | Aug 19, 2021 | BEAUTY, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, CREATIVITY, ETHNIC MINORITIES, FEMALE PORTRAIT, FREEDOM, HONESTY, INSPIRATIONAL, PORTRAITS
“The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls”Friedrich Nietzsche Gerald Festus Kelly – Gillian John, Kneeling, 1930.
by Lisa Azarmi | Aug 19, 2021 | CREATIVITY, FEMALE PORTRAIT, HEART, INSPIRATIONAL, LOVE, MUSIC
“Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.” Maria von Trapp Gustav Klimt – Music 1, 1895.
by Lisa Azarmi | Aug 18, 2021 | ART MOVEMENTS, BLACK & WHITE, CLASSIC LITERATURE, CREATIVITY, ETERNAL LOVE, FEELINGS, FEMALE PORTRAIT, FREEDOM, HOPE, ILLUSTRATION, IMAGINATION, INNER STRENGTH, LOVE, MAGIC, MUSIC, NIGHT
“Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.” Wilkie Collins – The Woman in White, 1859. Jean Delville – Parsifal, 1890.