by Lisa Azarmi | Aug 26, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, BEAUTY, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BOOKS, COURAGE, DREAMS, ENDURANCE, FEELINGS, FEMALE PORTRAIT, HONESTY, HOPE, KINDNESS, MOTIVATIONAL, NUDES, PORTRAITS, SELF LOVE
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” George Bernard Shaw Louis Welden Hawkins – The Haloes 1894.
by Lisa Azarmi | Aug 26, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, BEAUTY, BECOMING, FEMALE PORTRAIT, FRENDSHIP, GARDEN, HONESTY, KINDNESS
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.” Ralph Waldo...
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 | ART MOVEMENTS, AUTUMN, BEAUTY, BECOMING, BOTANICAL, FORESTS, HONESTY, HOPE, IMAGINATION, INSPIRATIONAL, LIFE PATH, NATURE, SPIRITUALITY, TREES
“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life…”Herman Hesse Gustav Klimt –...
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…...