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My work principle - I don't step twice into the same river. Each my painting is thought to be unique because I work by intuition. I can not make a copy of my work because I can not imitate my feelings. They are unique as feelings of everyone. http://strannik5.wix.com/olga-romanova

A Man's A Man For A' That Is there for honest Poverty That hings his head, an' a' that; The coward slave-we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that! For a' that, an' a' that. Our toils obscure an' a' that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The Man's the gowd for a' that. What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin grey, an' a that; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine; A Man's a Man for a' that: For a' that, and a' that, Their tinsel show, an' a' that; The honest man, tho' e'er sae poor, Is king o' men for a' that. Ye see yon birkie, ca'd a lord, Wha struts, an' stares, an' a' that; Tho' hundreds worship at his word, He's but a coof for a' that: For a' that, an' a' that, His ribband, star, an' a' that: The man o' independent mind He looks an' laughs at a' that. A prince can mak a belted kn...

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

I have updated my website :) http://olgaromanova.tema24.ru/

I'll always be in unequal conditions with other artists because I am a Russian and I am a Christian.

It's a good day to start afresh. I am tired from politics. I want to paint. Civilization is perishing. So what? Everything has the beginning, everything has the end. I will be paint!

"Europe Day and Europe Night" by Olga Romanova, 2001 I have made these works for the Euro Birthday Competition. It was in 2001. I thought everything has the beginning and the end. So I made euro day and euro night. Where there is the beginning there is the end.

"When you meet a dragon that has eaten a swan, do you guess by the few feathers left around the mouth?" "Dragon" by Olga Romanova http://olgaromanova.tema24.ru/

"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

"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.

"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

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.    

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.

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

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 :)

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.

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