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31.12.2013

I hope 2014 will be the year of happy for our long-suffering earth. I would like to wish good luck to everyone in the new year. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

25.12.2013

Merry Christmas!  Dashing through the snow In a one-horse open sleigh, Over the fields we go, Laughing all the way; Bells on bob-tail ring, Making spirits bright, What fun it is to ride and sing A sleighing song tonight, O Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way! O what fun it is to ride In a one-horse open sleigh Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way! O what fun it is to ride In a one-horse open sleigh

23.12.2013

What do I do if the world went crazy? I don't know. I can only wait when people will get tired from ourselves. It is impossible to live with hatred in heart. Our heart must love because love is life.

17.12.2013

"Lilac" by Valentin Massov, 1979 "Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better".  André Gide I think just as he. The artist has to give to people beauty of nature and men's souls. We must remember Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? We are God's children and not the children of evil. http://valentinmassov.wix.com/lightart

13.12.2013

"Sermon on the Mount" by Olga Romanova I know I am not a modern artist. But I know I am the true artist . What is the true artist for me? The true artist is always a true artist. The person who gives to people an aesthetic, sensebeauty and happiness. Talent given by God and should return to God. The true artist has to show beauty but not abomination and utter desolation.

10.12.2013

"Lilfc" by Valentin Massov, 1979 In the beginning was the Light. But the Darkness has came and people adopted it. And now he who gives people Good and Light is the outcast person. Valentin Massov is the artist who make what nobody has made yet, everything that is left by the Art on the Earth. He makes the Light. http://valentinmassov.wix.com/light

04.12.2013

The Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple  Presentation of Mary The feast is associated with an event recounted not in the New Testament, but in the apocryphal Infancy Narrative of James. According to that text, Mary's parents, Joachim and Anne, who had been childless, received a heavenly message that they would have a child. In thanksgiving for the gift of their daughter, they brought her, when still a child, to the Temple in Jerusalem to consecrate her to God.

25.11.2013

Tolerance how we understand it is evil tolerance. We want justify sin by tolerance but we don't want to think that thus we perpetrate even more sin. God is not tolerant to satan. Why does a human think that he can justify what God can not? Of course, a human thinks there is no God and he is the king of nature and everything is permitted. And this is his fatal flaw. People should remember about Sodom and Gomorrah. And above all, they have to believe. To believe God is to believe what God says, to be true.

19.11.2013

My self-portraits - 1993, 1997, 2011 I paint myself to see how I change with age. It very interesting work. I can look in my past and see all changes (bad or good), which happened with me. I am changing and this is normally. People are born and die. You can't step into the same river twice. We will never be the same. I like to watch for change of my body. I paint that I see. My self-portraits are my living chronicle.    

14.11.2013

"Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others". Socrates

12.11.2013

The Blind Leading the Blind It's interesting. How much times can sell one's country, one's people, one's conscience? I look at the politicians and I wonder. They lead the world to war with the persistence of the blind which go to the abyss. And they consider that they do good.

07.11.2013

Can an artist create when the whole world is against him? I can ask the question differently : must an artist create if the whole world is against him? I am an artist and I work "not thanks but despite". I've achieved great results in my work despite the evil of some people that was directed against me. And now someone wants to get hold of my works for nothing. It vexes me.

04.11.2013

Our Lady of Kazan Our Lady of Kazan, also called Theotokos of Kazan, was a holy icon of the highest stature within the Russian Orthodox Church, representing the Virgin Mary as the protector and patroness of the city of Kazan. Her feast days are July 21 and November 4 (which is also the Day of National Unity). According to tradition, the icon was discovered on July 8, 1579, underground in the city of Kazan by a little girl, Matrona, to whom the location of the image was revealed by the Theotokos, the Blessed Virgin Mary, in a Marian apparition. The original icon was kept in the Theotokos Monastery of Kazan, built to commemorate the spot where it had been discovered. Kazan Monastery of the Theotokos where the icon was conserved until 1904. Invocation of the Virgin Mary through the icon was credited by the Russian commanders, Dmitry Pozharsky and Mikhail Kutuzov, with helping the country to repel the Polish invasion of 1612, the Swedish invasion of 1709, and Napoleon's invasio

28.10.2013

Why does someone think that he can be the boss for people? Especially if they  don't want it. So and some countries are. They use as a cover democracy to do their evil. In fact they spit upon democracy. They are only interested in their interest. I think the politicians must begin speak truth: bad or good but it have to be truth. Do you want to be a good person in the eyes of the public? Do good!

22.01.2013

"Read Art. God is Love" by Olga Romanova, 2012 In God I Trust. And you?

17.10.2013

Autumn, 2013 Autumn is a lovely time. It's the last flash of nature. Autumn is like age for a person. Age gives wisdom and beauty. Beauty is not like a cute appearance but in the sense of spiritual fullness. I like autumn and my one too.

15.10.2013

Autumn, 2013 Evil has no existence because evil is death and death is emptiness. Evil lives on other lives. People are only food for it. Therefore evil can not live without people. I don't want to be food for evil, so I am with God.

08.10.2013

Olga Romanova, 2013 Yesterday we have walked in the park. It was the first day without rain this Autumn. There were a lot of sun, colours and light. It was very beautiful.

04.10.2013

I am 24. Russia, Penza region, 1994 I worked. I have painted a portrait of the man. I like work. I can work every day 24 hours a day. Work is as narcotic, than more I work than more I want to work. My work is the meaning of my life. I am happy :)

30.09.2013

Who can be called exceptional? I think: 1. God 2. The Saint 3. The genius By the way, the Saint is the genius and vice versa. I think. Man can not be exceptional, because God created man in his own image. So, Man is only a copy of God, herewith the bad copy. Why are the Saint and the genius the exceptional humans? Because the Saint and the genius are the conductors of God's will. They are above all, they are exceptional. I know, the world renounces from God, but it doesn't mean that there is no God.

23.09.2013

Valentin Massov A creative person is doomed to be an outcast in our world. He looks in future and sees that the others don't see. He creates future by his creativity. He is not one of the many. He is the unique. A mob doesn't like the uniques. They speak furiously: "If you are not with us you are against us". They hate him for his talent. They turn him into a pariah. They kill him. And next they deplore deeply and erect a monument to him. Because he is no longer a threat to them.

06.09.2013

Fascism views political violence, war, and imperialism as a means to achieve national rejuvenation and asserts that stronger nations have the right to obtain land and resources by displacing weaker nations. (From Wikipedia)

28.08.2013

Dormition of the Mother of God In Orthodoxy and Catholicism, in the language of the scripture, death is often called a "sleeping" or "falling asleep". According to Orthodox and Eastern Catholic tradition Mary, having spent her life after Pentecost supporting and serving the nascent Church, was living in the house of the Apostle John, in Jerusalem, when the Archangel Gabriel revealed to her that her death would occur three days later. The apostles, scattered throughout the world, are said to have been miraculously transported to be at her side when she died. Mary had been buried in Gethsemane, according to her request. Her body was gone, leaving a sweet fragrance. An apparition is said to have confirmed that Christ had taken her body to heaven after three days to be reunited with her soul. Orthodox theology teaches that the Theotokos has already undergone the bodily resurrection which all will experience at the Second coming, and stands in heaven in that glori

23.08.2013

What's happened to Man when he ate the Apple with the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil? Why did he transformed from God's man into a beast? What is this apple? May be it was the poison, or something else. I dont know. The truth in that the Man has changed. Look back! Who do you see? Do you see people or wild beasts? I have some questions and I don't know where I can find the answers.

20.08.2013

Why do I write in English if I know that my English is poor? I don't know. Probably I have been learning English too long to give up it. I feel sorry for time spent. So I'll be write in poor English go on :)

19.08.2013

The Transfiguration of Jesus.  The Transfiguration is one of the miracles of Jesus in the Gospels. This miracle is unique among others that appear in the Canonical gospels, in that the miracle happens to Jesus himself. Thomas Aquinas considered the Transfiguration "the greatest miracle" in that it complemented baptism and showed the perfection of life in Heaven. In Christian teachings, the Transfiguration is a pivotal moment, and the setting on the mountain is presented as the point where human nature meets God: the meeting place for the temporal and the eternal, with Jesus himself as the connecting point, acting as the bridge between heaven and earth.

10.08.2013

Evil comes when a human loses faith. What does help me to keep Faith? It's my creativity . Only when I work I am happy because I am with God.   "The branch of Apple" by Olga Romanova

29.07.2013

The Flood has come. Rain, rain, rain... It's raining all the time. Rain is warm. Drops run down the face. They tickle my cheeks, nose, chin. It's so funny. But I would like to see the Sun. I am tired from rain. "...A thousand forests had been crushed under the rain and grown up a thousand times to be crushed again. And this was the way life was forever on the planet Venus Earth..." :) (All Summer in a Day)

23.07.2013

I am a Russian professional artist in oil painting and I am a woman. In our modern world, these concepts are hardly compatible. Besides, I am a very talented artist. I love my work. I can not imagine myself in the role of housewife. I love the smell of the paint more than the smell of a fried chicken. There are many paintings in my house. There are no the embroidered pillows and the china cups there. My world is the world of creativity, imagination and dreams. My works are filled with divine inspiration, because I have charisma. I know my paintings don't fall into oblivion, because people need them.  

17.07.2013

I leave my town when I get tired from its sounds, smoke and people evil. I go to my country where I have peace for my body and my mind. I can hear how grass grows and stars talk to each other. The air in my country is permeated with the smell of fresh milk. Sunrises and sunsets are filled with special beauty. Everything breathes tranquility. I am happy.   

15.07.2013

It's good if you have your home in the village.

04.07.2013

There is the dictatorship of materialism in the world now. And this dictatorship is the worst dictatorship from. Human without God is only an animal. Human cannot live without Faith because he has not only the body but also the soul. I don't want to live as dust: to eat, to defecate, to have sex. I want to live as the human who has the soul: to think, to create, to cognize God to progress.

23.06.2013

Pentecost 13  If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. 2  If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing. 3  If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing. 4  Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, 5  doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; 6  doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7  bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8  Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with. 9  For we know i

21.06.2013

Is Man the King of animals? No, he isn't. Can Man control nature? No, he cannot. He can't even control his wife. So why does he think that he can control God?

17.06.2013

I forget that our world is on the verge of destruction when I am on nature. Only there I forget about all. What do I care to people which as the dog who eats dog. It's their problems. If people doesn't want to live in peace, I can not help them.

08.06.2013

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God". This is not fiction. This is our history. And a human who doesn't understand it is an illiterate human. You cannot be free from God because God is your father, your flesh and blood. You cannot reject from yourself. Life without God is death.

04.06.2013

The world cannot replace Christ by morality. A human cannot live without God. We are not worms, we are people. Our father is God and not a monkey. We have soul and soul goes to its creator. Troubles come to us when we reject God.

27.05.2013

We live in the interesting time. Sodom is dead long live Sodom! I think I can see how the New Sodom collapses. Dominique Venner sacrificed his life to save Europe from Sodom. He created cause. Now we will be wait effect.

21.05.2013

I came back from the village to my city. There is a big difference between the village and the city. There are many clean air, quiet, peace and beautyful viewes in the village. And there are many smog, noise and angry people in the city. I like peace and beauty and I don't like noise and angry people. The Russian writer said: "Beauty will save the world". I agree with him. Unfortunately, real beauty is far away from the cities.

13.05.2013

Who can say he knows God? Nobody. Who can say he knows what is faith? Nobody. We treat God and faith as the consumers but not as God's children. Therefore Faith leaves our hearts. We begin to think there is no God. In fact we forgot Faith is not the gloves which we can buy and God is not a seller.

10.05.2013

In the Hebrew Bible, Sodom was a city destroyed by God because of the evil of its inhabitants. I don't think that God will be tolerate New Sodom. I think a new war is a matter of time. Unfortunately, people begin to remember that they God's children and not Sodom's ones only when they suffer. We are writing the bloody history with their own hands.

05.05.2013

CHRIST IS RISEN! Angels in the Heavens, O Christ our Savior, praise Thy Resurrection with hymns; deem us also who are on earth worthy to glorify Thee with a pure heart! HE IS RISEN INDEED!

29.04.2013

I am writing my book. I hope I'll finish it in the fall. My book is my the first creative experiment in fiction. It seems to me that it will be successfull experiment.

27.04.2013

It's Spring! It's the beginning of life. I am glad for every living thing which wakes up to life. This is the symphony of life! What a wonderful world!

17.04.2013

Unfortunately, people don't need the Light. The Light illuminates the that we would want to hide. We are afraid of it. And when we are afraid we hate. Abyssus abyssum invocat.

11.04.2013

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY DEAR VALENTIN !!!

08.04.2013

Slow and steady wins the race.

05.04.2013

When a person has something to say let he is not silent. I have something to say and I say. People! Come to your senses! What you are doing! Our planet is perishing. We don't want to think about the future. It means the future of our children remains undecided. 

02.04.2013

Well, April has already begun. I like this month because it's mine. My birthday in April. I am Aries. It means I am strong and creative nature. Aries is the creator. Aries is fire. Aries is the first sign in the horoscope. I am glad that I am Aries.

31.03.2013

EASTER 2013 Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and upon those in the tombs bestowing life! CHRI ST IS RISEN!

28.03.2013

The artist Valentin Massov You would like to attain faith, and do not know the way; you would like to cure yourself of unbelief, and ask the remedy for it. Learn of those who have been bound like you, and who now stake all their possessions. These are people who know the way which you would follow, and who are cured of an ill of which you would be cured. Follow the way by which they began; by acting as if they believed, bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you will quiet your proudly critical intellect...

25.03.2013

21.03.2013

A woman asked me: " Why do I need to love a beauty if our world is such horrible?" I didn't know what answered her. And the worst there are many people which think as this woman. The part of the world has already rejected God. Now people want to reject a beauty. What will be next?

18.03.2013

Why do people aspire to destruction like unwise children? Why do they choose evil and not good? People think only themselves about and don't want think about common good. We live on the blue small ball surrounded by death. But we live as if we have the hundred such planets in stock. 

13.03.2013

Can I save all humanity? No I can't. I can save only myself. Also and everyone can save only oneself. And if everyone saves oneself all humanity will be save.

12.03.2013

Can I persuade anyone to come to God? No I can't. Every human has the right to a mistake. God gave us free will. We can use it any way we like. And if there was no the law of cause and effect humanity would have been destroyed long ago. We live because we are afraid consequences. 

07.03.2013

If there is no God in the Church, why do you need such Church? There is no God there is no Church. If there is no God in the Pope's heart, why do you need such Pope? There is no God, there is no Pope.

04.03.2013

 

01.03.2013

'Tis time, my friend... 'Tis time, my friend, 'tis time! The heart to peace aspires: Day follows day; the rolling stream of hours Crumbles the banks of being, and you and I Had thought to live, and yet, behold, we die. Though joy for ever flees, peace stays and concentration. For long now has it been my consolation, Hard-driven slave, to plan rebellious flight To some far sanctuary of work and chaste delight. A.S.Pushkin

25.02.2013

Nature abhors a vacuum. If you don't want to live with God, you will be live with Satan.

20.02.2013

History repeats itself. Only blind doesn't see this. The revolutions, degradation of people, the meteorite are the links of one chain. And what will be tomorrow? War? I think yes. I can not look at the world with eyes of an optimist, because I can think and analyse. And what I see causes alarm from me.

18.02.2013

Blessed is the man that doth not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law doth he meditate day and night. For he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of waters, that will bring forth her fruits in due season: whose leaf shall not fade: so whatsoever he shall do, shall prosper. The wicked are not so, but as the chaff, which the wind driveth away. Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous. For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous, and the way of the wicked shall perish.                                                         (Psalm 1)  

12.02.2013

Thoughts, thoughts...  where are you coming from? and where are you running? Thoughts are always running. They are elusive. It's expression and only. The story of life of every artist is reflected in his works. Every work is the page of the diary of an artist. And everyone can read it if he wants.   "Expression" by Olga Romanova

07.02.2013

People, people! God gave you eyes and devil took away vision. You are blind. You don't see the beauty around you. You see only  the glitter of gold and gold blinds you.

04.02.2013

A diamond is always hidden from human eyes. We should take some pains to a diamond becomes the diamond. So it is with a talented artist. Society should work to his talent becomes the cultural heritage of the all world. "A sunflower" watercolour by Valentin Massov, 1979

28.01.2013

It's frost outside today. I sit at home and look out of the window. The room is warm and I am fine. God! Save and preserve who has no the warm room and who is not fine.

23.01.2013

The more Man will be hate God, the more he will be like the satan. Man will never be alone. He will always be either with God or with the devil. He has no alternative, because nature abhors a vacuum.

16.01.2013

And what is it excellence in Art? Everyone defines in his own way. I think no one can give definition excellence in Art correct. Somebody likes Velazquez, somebody likes Picasso. But we have a problem. And Velazquez's Art and Picasso's Art are perfectly. I think the word "excellence" is inseparably linked with God. And if you with God you will have a chance to get closer to excellence.

11.01.2013

07.01.2013

Chrictmas Day in Russia

04.01.2013

Unfortunately, when new year came, my pessimism hadn't vanished away. I look at the world and I see people do not want to change anything in their way of life. As always they want only bread and circuses. They do not want think about other people. No one wants to worry that the world is heading for the abyss. All as always. Therefore my pessimism laughs at my mind.

01.01.2013