by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 8, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, BEAUTY, BECOMING, CALM, HOPE, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, LIFE PATH, LIGHT, SELF LOVE, SOUL
“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.” Sarah Williams – Twilight Hours, 1868. Boris Kustodiev – After the storm, 1921.
by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 6, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, BECOMING, CALM, COURAGE, HONESTY, HOPE, INNER STRENGTH, MIDSUMMER, MOONLIGHT, MOTIVATIONAL, PAINTING, SELF LOVE, SERENITY, WATER
“I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.” Jane Austen – Sense and Sensibility, 1795. Edvard Munch – Summer Night by the Beach, 1902-03.
by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 6, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, BEAUTY, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BLACK & WHITE, COURAGE, ENDURANCE, HONESTY, HOPE, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, LIFE PATH, PHOTOGRAPHY, PORTRAITS, SELF LOVE, VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHY, WELLBEING
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with...
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 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, 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.