by Lisa Azarmi | Dec 14, 2021 | LOVE, PHOTOGRAPHY, SELF LOVE
“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.” Claude Monet Claude Monet in his garden at Giverny, 1905.
by Lisa Azarmi | Oct 1, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, ANIMALS, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BOOKS, CHILD PORTRAIT, CHILDREN, CHILDRENS STORY BOOK, CLASSIC LITERATURE, COURAGE, ENDURANCE, ETERNAL LOVE, FEARLESS, FEELINGS, FREEDOM, GENTLENESS, HEART, HONESTY, HOPE, ILLUSTRATION, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, KINDNESS, LIFE PATH, MOTIVATIONAL, PATIENCE, SELF LOVE, UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, WELLBEING
“You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose...
by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 20, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BLACK & WHITE, BOOKS, CALM, CONFIDENCE, COURAGE, ENDURANCE, FEARLESS, FEELINGS, FEMALE PORTRAIT, GENTLENESS, HONESTY, HOPE, ILLUSTRATION, IMAGINATION, INDIVIDUALITY, INNER STRENGTH, KINDNESS, LIFE PATH, LIGHT, MOTIVATIONAL, SELF LOVE, SERENITY, SPIRITUALITY, WATER, WELLBEING, 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…...
by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 17, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, ADVENTURE, BEAUTY, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, CALM, COURAGE, FEARLESS, HONESTY, HOPE, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, LIFE PATH, MOTIVATIONAL, OPENING, PAINTING, SELF LOVE
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”Helen Keller Henri Le Sidaner – The Garden Door, The Console, 1924.
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.