For me, painting means a talk about myself. To make visible my natural inclinations, its subtle and indistinctive tonality, through explicit features, such as the line, color, smudge. This is what painting is about, in my opinion. The “sound” of the canvas dictates what is shown there, and not the other way around. An artist, in my view, is the one “tuning” the canvas, the viewer can discover his inner world through my canvas. The young generation, even though I understand it, speaks about itself upon the computer screen, which depends highly on pixels… But even as they increase the number of pixels, they still fail to deliver. They have even made up a wonderful thing – if a video is filmed, the worse the quality of the video, the more ingenuous it is . I was speaking, though, about something completely different: about myself, expressing my personality.
From a conversation with Anatoly Basin. April 2012, Jerusalem.
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