by Lisa Azarmi | Aug 23, 2021 | BEAUTY, BECOMING, BOTANICAL, DREAMS, ETERNAL LOVE, FLOWERS, FREEDOM, HEART, LOVE, LOVERS, POET, POETRY, PORTRAITS
“I have named you queen.There are taller than you, taller.There are purer than you, purer.There are lovelier than you, lovelier.But you are the queen. When you go through the streetsNo one recognizes you.No one sees your crystal crown, no one looksAt the carpet of red...
by Lisa Azarmi | Aug 23, 2021 | BEAUTY, BECOMING, BIRDS, COURAGE, DIGITAL ART, DREAMS, ENDURANCE, FANTASY, FEMALE PORTRAIT, FLOWERS, FLYING, FREEDOM, ILLUSTRATION, IMAGINATION, INDIVIDUALITY, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, LIFE PATH, MOTIVATIONAL
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”Friedrich Nietzsche Christian...
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 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.
by Lisa Azarmi | Aug 18, 2021 | ART MOVEMENTS PHOTOGRAPHY, BEAUTY, ENDURANCE, ETERNAL LOVE, FEARLESS, FEELINGS, FEMALE PORTRAIT, FREEDOM, HEART, HONESTY, HOPE, KINDNESS, LOVE, MOTIVATIONAL, PHOTOGRAPHY, POET, POETRY, PORTRAITS, SELF LOVE, VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHY, WELLBEING
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.” Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass, 1855. Baron Adolf De Meyer – Dolores, 1919.
by Lisa Azarmi | Aug 18, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, BEAUTY, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BLACK & WHITE, BODY, COURAGE, CREATIVITY, FEELINGS, FREEDOM, HEART, HONESTY, HOPE, ILLUSTRATION, IMAGINATION, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, KINDNESS, LIFE PATH, LOVE, MOTIVATIONAL, PATIENCE, PRINT, WATER, WOODBLOCK
“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days…...