Oil Paintings (50 portraits)
The Portraits
These are paintings of writers and poets, explorers and musicians, those who stay current in spite of passing time. The paintings were done using old black and white photographs and were kept that way. These are sketches, impressions that were inspired by the words these people say and deeds they did.
Portraits
Erich Maria Remarque
Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky
Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky
Those who consider themselves fair, are particularly ruthless.
― Erich Maria Remarque
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" $950
Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky
Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky
Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky
Тут дьявол с Богом борется, а поле битвы – сердца людей
- Фёдор Достоевский
God and the devil are fighting here and the battlefield is the heart of man.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" $950
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
At the threshold of the new day stands the Lord who made it.
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" $950
Leo
G.K. Chesterton
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
― Leo Tolstoy
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" $950
C.S. Lewis
G.K. Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.
― C.S. Lewis
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" $950
G.K. Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
– G.K Chesterton
Oil on canvas / 14"x18" $950
Louis Armstrong
Nikolai Nekrasov
Louis Armstrong
I see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom for me and you. And I think to myself what a wonderful world.
― Louis Armstrong
Oil on canvas / 14"x18" $950
Charlie Chaplin
Nikolai Nekrasov
Louis Armstrong
That which is apparent ends. That which is subtle is never-ending.
– Charlie Chaplin
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" $950
Nikolai Nekrasov
Nikolai Nekrasov
Vladimir Vysotsky
Be diligent to follow the rule: make the space for words to be tight, but for the thoughts spacious.
— Nikolai Nekrasov
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" $950
Vladimir Vysotsky
Vladimir Vysotsky
Vladimir Vysotsky
Even if you're a thousand times right, what's the point if your woman cries?
— Vladimir Vysotsky
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" SOLD
Josef Sudek
Vladimir Vysotsky
Josef Sudek
Theory is alright, but it is like eating. When you overeat, you get sick.
— Josef Sudek
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" $950
Charles Dickens
Feodor Dostoevsky
Feodor Dostoevsky
“Are tears the dewdrops of the heart?”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $950
Feodor Dostoevsky
Feodor Dostoevsky
Feodor Dostoevsky
... 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
Anton Chekhov
Feodor Dostoevsky
Anton Chekhov
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" / $950
Leo Tolstoy
Vladimir Mayakovski
Anton Chekhov
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
Vladimir Mayakovski
Vladimir Mayakovski
Vladimir Mayakovski
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" / $950
George Müller
Vladimir Mayakovski
Vladimir Mayakovski
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" / $950
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
You see, but you do not observe.
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $950
A. A. Milne
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“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" / $950
Virginia Woolf
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Virginia Woolf
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
― Virginia Woolf
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $950
John Steinbeck
Feodor Chaliapin
Virginia Woolf
To be alive at all is to have scars.
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $950
Rudyard Kipling
Feodor Chaliapin
Feodor Chaliapin
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
– Rudyard Kipling
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $950
Feodor Chaliapin
Feodor Chaliapin
Feodor Chaliapin
.. 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" / SOLD
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $950
Walt Whitman
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
“When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.”
– Walt Whitman
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / SOLD
Robert W. Service
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit -
It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.
― Robert W. Service
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / N/A
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Большой талант требует большого трудолюбия.
— Пётр Ильич Чайковский
Great talent requires great diligence.
— Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $950
Alexander Block
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Alexander Block
О, я хочу безумно жить: все сущее увековечить, безличное — вочеловечить, несбывшееся — воплотить!
— Александр Блок
Oh, I want to live recklessly: all that essential - to perpetuate, all that subjectless - to humanize, all that unfulfilled - to bring about!
— Alexander Block
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $950
Arthur Miller
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Alexander Block
You never do any good until you get into some trouble.
― Arthur Miller
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $950
Tom Crean
Fridtjof Nansen
Fridtjof Nansen
Tom Crean was a polar explorer, and was known as the "Irish Giant" with the "heart of a lion"
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $950
Fridtjof Nansen
Fridtjof Nansen
Fridtjof Nansen
The difficult is what takes a little time. The impossible is what takes a little longer.
― Fridtjof Nansen
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $950
Edmund Hillary
Fridtjof Nansen
Edmund Hillary
Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
― Edmund Hillary
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $950
Roald Amundsen
Roald Amundsen
Edmund Hillary
A rich and varied menu is for people who have no work to do.
― Roald Amundsen
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $950
C. S. Lewis
Roald Amundsen
C. S. Lewis
The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.
― C.S. Lewis
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / SOLD
Thomas Mann
Roald Amundsen
C. S. Lewis
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
― Thomas Mann
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $950
Isamu Noguchi
Isamu Noguchi
Isamu Noguchi
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" / SOLD
Jack London
Isamu Noguchi
Isamu Noguchi
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
Pablo Neruda
Isamu Noguchi
Vasily Shukshin
I crave a love so deep, the ocean would be jealous.
— Pablo Neruda
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $950
Vasily Shukshin
Bertrand Russell
Vasily Shukshin
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" $950
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.
— Bertrand Russell
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" $950
Maxim Gorky
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
Свобода от всего-это наказание.
― Максим Горький
Freedom from everything is punishment.
― Maxim Gorky
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" $950
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
― Albert Schweitzer
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" $950
C. G. Jung
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.
― C.G. Jung
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" $950
Fyodor Tyutchev
Albert Schweitzer
Fyodor Tyutchev
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" $950
George Orwell
Martin Niemöller
Fyodor Tyutchev
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
― George Orwell
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" $950
Andrew Furuseth
Martin Niemöller
Martin Niemöller
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
Martin Niemöller
Martin Niemöller
Martin Niemöller
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" SOLD
Norman Rockwell
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
I paint life as I would like it to be. ― Norman Rockwell
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" $950
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth
― Ernest Hemingway
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" $950
Mark Twain
Ernest Hemingway
George Bernard Shaw
A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory
― Mark Twain
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" $950
George Bernard Shaw
Alfred Lord Tennyson
George Bernard Shaw
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
― George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" $950
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson
What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
― Alfred Lord Tennyson
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" $950
Alexandre Dumas
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson
All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
— Alexandre Dumas
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" $950
St. Justin Popovich
St. Justin Popovich
St. Justin Popovich
In our earthly world, the reality is obvious: we are only as human as much we are willing to let God in ourselves. The less God there is in man, the less human he is.
— St. Justin Popovich
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" SOLD
Eugène Delacroix
St. Justin Popovich
St. Justin Popovich
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
― Eugène Delacroix
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" $950
Mikhail Bulgakov
St. Justin Popovich
Mikhail Bulgakov
But why don't you take him with you into the light? He does not deserve the light, he deserves peace.
— Mikhail Bulgakov, "The Master and Margarita"
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" $950
Marc Chagall
Frederic Chopin
Mikhail Bulgakov
Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.
― Marc Chagall
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" $950
Qi Baishi
Frederic Chopin
Frederic Chopin
Paintings must be something between likeness and unlikeness, much like today's vulgarians
― Qi Baishi
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" $950
Frederic Chopin
Frederic Chopin
Frederic Chopin
Simplicity is the final achievement.
— Frederic Chopin
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" $950
Charles Dickens
Feodor Dostoevsky
Anton Chekhov
Leo Tolstoy
Vladimir Mayakovski
George Muller
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Alan Alexander Milne
G. k. Chesterton
Charlie Chaplin
C.S. Lewis
Leo (Tolstoy)
Fyodor M.Dostoyevsky
