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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

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.

"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/

"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.

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?

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

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...

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

Contemporary art is like fast food. It's fast, cheap, tastelessly. As if it is food but it is impossible to eat.

The phallus on Foundry bridge is recognised by the best product of visual art of 2010. «Really, it's very radical and strong project which has been purely technically realised masterly. The project which oversteps the bounds of art and interferes in real social space,» Art critic Alexander Evangely said. No comment... When an artist has nothing to say, he makes a phallus. A phallus as a symbol of contemporary art is the right symbol.  Unfortunately, the penis it's all that contemporary art can give to the world.

There are many artists in the world today. This is good. May we speak about new Renaissance in art? No! I see of many who want to earn by art any way, and only. Contemporary artists don't think about themselves as about the great artists. They don't think about meaning of the art and meaning of the life. The artist has not to deteriorate to the level of the crowd. The artist is the man who has to show to people the possibility of their development. The contemporary art shows only the way to destruction. It is the art without the future.

Contemporary art is reduced to a shadow of Art and we will not have Renaissance until we do not change our outlook on life .  We are a consumer society. We can consume only and nothing to create.  We are a huge jaw and a bottomless stomach.  Our soul is lost and it is the voice of one crying from the depths of despair. We want only bread and circuses, so our art is the child of sin.

I am a professional artist but I don't want to call myself a modern artist because the modern art is anti-art. “We’ve reached the point where Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen might as well be an artist; all he needs is an empty room and some chalk. We pee on things, we pee into things, we pee over things… and call it art,” the art critic Brian Sewell said. “This will end in disaster. In another generation, it will be inconceivable that anyone will be taught how to paint. The blind are leading the blind. The head of painting at the Royal College couldn’t paint a Christmas card…Not enormously. I’ve looked over the edge at death in the past few years enough times; when you’ve done that, you no longer find anything much very depressing.” Now all is possible. Everyone has the opportunity to express himself how he wants, but from this freedom talents don't grow. There is no Giotto, there is no Velasquez, there is no Van Gogh, there is no Picasso. "Talent given by God and must return t...