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Olga Romanova,  a member of International Federation of Artists. http://olgaromanova.tema24.ru/ “Everyone wants to understand art. Why don’t we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only an insignificant part of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world though we can’t explain them; people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.” Picasso

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"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

"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

'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

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

Let mankind thinks what is the better: war or art? Art? Let art will be more important for you than war, then. Business must invests money in talented people and not in destruction.

Art commits incest all the time. I think it is high time "to renew blood". The art needs of new names.

What do we leave after ourselves? For the present we cause only death and destruction. The Great Culture left in the past. Our civilization is only poor exuse for Eternity. We are the children of Cain and our place in Hades.

Oh world, world! Where are you going? Who does want think about it? Nobody. Humanity lives like animals and the animals have no intellect. Our ancestors have created the great culture, and we..? We destroy it very well. Our ancestors have left us the knowledge, and we..? We can not understand it. Our ancestors have told us life's mystery about, and we..? We don't belive them. A man want to have a comfort life. What is it? It's life with no regret and compassion. Our ideal is the Terminator. He is the perfect machine without feels and emotions. We like him, we admire his strength and invulnerability. We want to be like him. Why? We need strength of mind and not strength. We need inspiration, creation, energy of thought and love. The Terminator will never create "Mona Lisa" or a Requiem. He will never look at the stars because it is not necessary for him. Love, life, death... all will alien to him.

Nothing! It's very strange, but Mr. Putin has nothing said about Russian culture. I believe Russian culture is dead. Like culture, like society. Amen.