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Translation (one of the very rare) interview:

Who or what influenced you most in your youth?

First of all, and most of all influenced me that I realized the horror of work in any office or bank, it gave me the desire to live a free and creative life. Of the writers who were important to me, William Blake, James Carey ... All this has led to the fact that I decided to force himself to work every day, without exception. Later, in school, I experienced a lot of different influences, such as Paul Klee, Edward Burra, artists, who, as I thought, you can imitate. Still later - Picasso, then - Rembrandt and all virtually the entire history of art.

What matters is whether these effects are still in your work?

Of course, the latter effect is still important. I do not have a solidified opinion, I would rather react to what they saw, but in principle I can be influenced by any of the well-known of the great masters, and not only them, but much less well-known artists as Albert Pinhem Ryder, Gerald Wilde, Antonin Artaud -- I will not continue, the list would be too very long.

At what time of day you work best?

In the mornings and evenings, afternoons often gives good results.

What the artists past and present you most admire?

It is very difficult to answer this question - perpechen again be very long. Rembrendt, Kosteybl, Turner, Titian, Veronese, Velaskuzez, Whistler, Giacometti, Mariss, Leger, Rodin, Michelangelo, Picasso, Mexican and Japanese sculpture, Hogarth, Daumier, Cezanne, Seurat, de Kooning - and generally, any artist who comes to your mind.

do you prefer to work, being alone, or you are willing to write in the presence of people?

I have never worked on people, I just can not. The work requires a very high concentration of nervous. But seven days a week, come to me sitter, and they, of course, are present in my work.

How do you start working on a painting? What do you preparatory drawings, sketches or just embarking on painting, without training?

I do not have a strictly defined method. Before you write your landscape, I make preparatory drawings. When I work with an artist's model, the direct write, but then move that into the work of a lot of changes.

Which of your works are best represents you?

I, you know, a small expert on his work, but I think the pictures are generally more personal, better express the author. Probably I should choose one of my successful designs.

Do you feel that you constantly return to its past?

Yes, of course, but for me it is not "return to the past", it seems to me that in so doing, I go forward.