Russki Album - Extensive catalogue of female artists of St. Petersburg, Russia. Art from every direction and style plus profiles of each artist.
The Timkov Collection - The largest collection of Russian Impressionist paintings by a 20th century landscape artist Nikolai Efimovich Timkov, who is best known for his lyrical depictions of the countryside and works which evoke the beauty and magnitude of the Russian landscape.
Famous Russian Paintings - Most celebrated Russian paintings. Information on each painting includes the time when it was created and the name of the artist.
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Visual Arts If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Visual Arts
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Visual Arts You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Visual Arts
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Visual Arts Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Visual Arts
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Visual Arts The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Visual Arts
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Visual Arts You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Visual Arts
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Visual Arts Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Visual Arts
Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Visual Arts "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Visual Arts
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Visual Arts "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Visual Arts
"The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Visual Arts "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Visual Arts
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Visual Arts "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Visual Arts
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Visual Arts "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Visual Arts
