AV

My motto: "If you feel it, say it. If you care, show it. Life is too short to hold yourself back. You never know what tomorrow will bring or take away. Live for today...live and let live. Be real, Be true, Just be. " ~ALV.
"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech." -Simonides (556 BC - 468 BC)
"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for." -Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
I am still becoming who ever I am going to be. I am kind, considerate, and very caring. I am a loyal friend and passionate in my beliefs. I am a lover of life, love, laughter, and nature. I am an artist, a Poet, and photographer. I love to draw, paint, and sculpt. I have also done ceramics and painted murals. I like to design and I love to write poetry, short stories, etc. You can read my poetry in my blogs. I read very often and love it(see the book section below. I have interest in Metaphysics as well. I am really open-minded, but my own person. I am who I am and I don't try to be anyone else. I love to have deep and intelligent conversations with like minds. I like to sing and dance. I enjoy Kickboxing my punching bag and Yoga. I also love to cook. I plan to teach myself how to play guitar. Music is a passion. I adore being outdoors, especially during the fall when the air is cool and crisp and it makes everything smell clean. Every breath is a sigh. I love nature and I try to be active in environmental and world issues as best as I can. I try to do what I can to spread awareness about these issues and do my best to take an active role in using my voice for the things that matter to me. You can be a part of this mission too by visiting my third myspace page at: http://www.myspace.com/Use_Your_Voice.
I love photography. I love to take photos, especially of simple things and everyday people so that people can see the world through my eyes. When you take a photograph you are freezing a moment in time and making a memory that is tangible and can be shared throughout time long after you are gone from this place. A photograph becomes art when you apply imagination and personal creativity to it. I currently shoot with a Canon EOS 30D. I also am currently building a webpage that will feature my many talents (grin) when available. Because of limited time it is coming along A LOT slower than I would like though, so please be patient with me.
I am very creative. I love to create something new and my hands are always doodling at something. I like variety and I like change, so my work can tend to be pretty random. I am always trying to grow spiritually. I like to learn about culture and love to travel. I enjoy going to art galleries and museums. I LOVE antiques and anything old with history. I love anything from the Victorian or Regency era especially. I collect antique books, and jewelry when I can afford them. ;) I love those old antique traveling trunks that lock with a skeleton key. I like to write letters the old fashioned way, with parchment paper and sealing wax. Email is so convenient and trust me I take advantage of it fully, but hand-writing a note or letter seems more personal sometimes.
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I can appreciate art in all its forms, as it is as individual as the artist themselves.
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If you would like to get to know me better or more personally as friends do, please go to my personal profile at http://www.myspace.com/nucha8 (it is also my first friend in my top friends list with the display name "Nu") and feel free to add me, but only if you want to keep in touch. If you only wish to network then please just add this profile. Thanks.
"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
-Edgar Allan Poe
"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye -- it also includes the inner pictures of the soul." - Edvard Munch
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing were a miracle. The other is as if everything is." - Albert Einstein
"Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual." -Nickolas Muray
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"Casting oneself always in shadows blinds the soul to a prism of colors starving to be seen." -ALV
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"Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without words, And never stops at all." -Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."-Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death." -Leonardo Da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." -Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)

"To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, An eternity in an hour." - William Blake (1757-1827)
"Charity begins at home." -Terence (185 BC - 159 BC), Andria
"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish." -Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
"Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none." -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
"The body is a sacred garment." -Martha Graham (1893 - 1991)
"Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade? " -Benjamin Franklin
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." - Albert Einstein, (Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium)
"The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself." -Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
"Everything you can imagine is real." -Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
"Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion." -Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. -Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."-Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds." -Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." -Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
" Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." -Plato (427? BC-347 BC)
" A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." -Ovid (43 BC-18 AD)
"The best way out is always through." -Robert Frost
"He that can live alone, resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything." -Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658)
"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens." -J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)
"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."-Voltaire (1694-1778)
"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want." -Ben Stein
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."-Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."-Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." -Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
"Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them." -Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't." -Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
"The most potent muse of all is our own inner child."-Stephen Nachmanovitch
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter." -Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
"Hope is a waking dream." -Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
"One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one." -Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." -Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"Keep true to the dreams of thy youth."-Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another." -Charles Dickens