by Lisa Azarmi | Aug 26, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BLACK & WHITE, BOOKS, CLASSIC LITERATURE, FEELINGS, HONESTY, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, MALE PORTRAIT, PHOTOGRAPHY, POET, POETRY, PORTRAITS
“Re-examine all that you have been told… dismiss that which insults your soul.”Walt Whitman H.S. Eakins – Walt Whitman 1891.
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 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 | ACCEPTANCE, BOOKS, FEELINGS, FEMALE PORTRAIT, INNER STRENGTH, LONELINESS, PORTRAITS, WELLBEING
“Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.”Carl Jung Norah Neilson Gray – Exotic, 1924.
by Lisa Azarmi | Aug 19, 2021 | ART MOVEMENTS, BEAUTY, BECOMING, BOTANICAL, DREAMS, ETERNAL LOVE, FEELINGS, FEMALE PORTRAIT, FLOWERS, GARDEN, POET, POETRY, PORTRAITS
“…Bright hopes and pure delights Upon his course may beam,And there, amid the sternest heights The sweetest flowerets gleam. On all her breezes borne, Earth yields no scents like those;But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never...
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.