The Portraits

“Are tears the dewdrops of the heart?”

― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

  Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $900  

 ... всякий из нас пред всеми во всем виноват, а я более всех.  ― Ф.М. Достоевский, Братья Карамазовы

 And another thing, mother, every one of us has sinned against all men, and I more than any.”  ― Feodor Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov

 Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / SOLD

Если тебе когда-нибудь понадобится моя жизнь, то приди и возьми её. ― А.П. Чехов, Чайка

“If my life can ever be of any use to you, come and take it.”

― Anton Chekhov, The Seagull

  Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $900 

Без любви жить легче. Но без неё нет смысла.   ― Лев Толстой

It's easier to live without love. But there is no point without it.   ― Leo Tolstoy

  Oil on canvas / 18"x14" /  SOLD 

А вы ноктюрн сыграть могли бы на флейте водосточных труб?

― Владимир Маяковский

And you, could you have played a nocturne with just a drainpipe for a flute?

― Vladimir Mayakovski

 Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $850

I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming.

― George Müller

 Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $900 

You see, but you do not observe.

― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia

 Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $700

“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.

"Pooh!" he whispered.

"Yes, Piglet?"

"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”

― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

 Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $800

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

― Virginia Woolf

 Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $900

To be alive at all is to have scars. 

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

 Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $900

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

– Rudyard Kipling

 Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $900

.. свобода в искусстве, как и в жизни, только тогда благо, когда она ограждена и укреплена внутренней дисциплиной

- Федор Шаляпин, Маска и душа

(В роли Дон Кихота)

.. freedom in art, as in life, is only virtue when it is guarded and fortified by the internal discipline

 - Feodor Chaliapin, Mask and Soul

(In Role of Don Quixote)

 Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $900

You can find out how to do something and then do it or do something and then find out what you did. 

― Isamu Noguchi

  Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $950

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. 

 —  Jack London

  Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $950

 I crave a love so deep, the ocean would be jealous.

— Pablo Neruda

  Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $950

С подлыми жить легче. Их ненавидеть можно – это проще. А с хорошими – трудно, стыдно как-то. 

—  Василий Макарович Шукшин

It's easier to live with vile ones. You can hate them - it's easier. But with good ones it is difficult, shameful - somehow

—  Vasily Shukshin

  Oil on canvas / 18"x14"  $900

To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.

—  Bertrand Russell

  Oil on canvas / 18"x14"  $950

Свобода от всего-это наказание.

― Максим Горький

Freedom from everything is punishment.

― Maxim Gorky

  Oil on canvas / 18"x14"  $900

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

― Albert Schweitzer

  Oil on canvas / 18"x14"  $950

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

― C.G. Jung

  Oil on canvas / 18"x14"  $950

Чему бы жизнь нас не учила, а сердце верит в чудеса!

― Фёдор Тютчев

Whatever life teaches us, but the heart believes in miracles!

― Fyodor Tyutchev

  Oil on canvas / 18"x14"  $900

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

― George Orwell

  Oil on canvas / 18"x14"  $950

You can put me in jail. But you cannot give me narrower quarters than as a seaman I have always had. 

You cannot give me coarser food than I have always eaten. You cannot make me lonelier than I have always been.

― Andrew Furuseth

  Oil on canvas / 18"x14"  $950

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. ― Martin Niemöller

  Oil on canvas / 18"x14"  $950